a spottail chub; a fish something like trout Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 66r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/66r/images/0 Accessed 26 October 2025.
Orthographic Variants:
xouilin
IPAspelling:
ʃowilin
Alonso de Molina:
xouilin. pescado de a palmo que parece trucha. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 161v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.