Bluestripe Pygmygoby, Trimma hollemani Winterbottom 2016


Other Names: Bluestripe Dwarfgoby, Bluestripe Pygmy Goby, Blue-striped Cave Goby, Blue-striped Dwarfgoby, Cave Pygmy-goby

A Bluestripe Pygmygoby, Trimma tevegae, at Padre Burgos, Eastern Visayas, Philippines. Source: Klaus Stiefel / Flickr. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial

Summary:
An orange pygmygoby with a broad bluish stripe from the upper jaw through the eye to the tail base, a narrow bluish stripe along the dorsal-fin base, a white underside, a pale bar and a large dark-reddish blotch on the rear of the caudal peduncle. 

Video of Bluestripe Pygmygobies at Cebu in the Philippines.
This species was previously known as Trimma tevegae, a species known from Philippines to the Solomon Islands, excluding Australia.

Cite this page as:
Bray, D.J. 2017, Trimma hollemani in Fishes of Australia, accessed 29 Mar 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/486

Bluestripe Pygmygoby, Trimma hollemani Winterbottom 2016

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Distribution

Ashmore and Lihou reefs in the Coral Sea, and the Great Barrier Reef from Cape York to One Tree Island, Queensland. Elsewhere, the species is widespread in the tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific.

Usually occurs in small groups in caves and crevices on steep outer reef drop-offs. 

Features

Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7-8; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 7 - 8. This species is distinguished by the following characters: a bony interorbital 82-100% pupil diameter; usually 11 ctenoid scales in predorsal midline; second dorsal spine may reach to the base of the third dorsal fin ray (in mature males) or anterior to this point; usually five free neuromasts (sensory papillae) in row r on the top of the snout, pectoral-fin rays usually 14-15 with 1-4 branched rays in about half the individuals; an unbranched fifth pelvic-fin ray that is 47-64% the length of the fourth ray. 

Colour

Freshly collected specimens: a red to yellow background colour, a pale stripe along the mid-lateral body that continues forward over the top of the pupil ending posteriorly at a pale bar across the peduncle in front of the dark caudal blotch; a pale stripe below the eye bordered dorsally by a narrow red stripe (both light stripes blue in life).

Feeding

Feeds on zooplankton in the water column.

Author

Bray, D.J. 2017

Bluestripe Pygmygoby, Trimma hollemani Winterbottom 2016

References


Allen, G.R. 1993. Fishes of Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 44: 67-91 (as Trimma tevegae)

Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 557 pp. figs. (as Trimma tevegae)

Winterbottom, R. 2016. Trimma tevegae and T. caudomaculatum revisited and redescribed (Acanthopterygii, Gobiidae), with descriptions of three new similar species from the western Pacific. Zootaxa 4144(1): 1–53

Quick Facts


CAAB Code:37428273

Behaviour:Hovers head up

Depth:8-70 m

Fishing:Aquarium fish (rare)

Habitat:Reef associated

Max Size:4.5 cm TL

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