Sharpeye Pygmygoby, Trimma anaima Winterbottom 2000


Other Names: Pale Dwarfgoby, Sharpeye Pygmy Goby

A Sharpeye Pygmygoby, Trimma anaima, at Uepi Island, Solomon Islands. Source: Sally Polack / FishWise Professional. License: CC BY Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike

Summary:
A small semi-translucent pinkish-orange goby with a broad reddish-orange midlateral stripe, a pale underside from the lower jaw to along the anal-fin base, and pale blue lines below and behind the eye, and on the middle of the snout.

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Bray, D.J. 2020, Trimma anaima in Fishes of Australia, accessed 29 Mar 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/487

Sharpeye Pygmygoby, Trimma anaima Winterbottom 2000

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Distribution

Far northern Great Barrier Reef, and reefs in the Coral Sea, Queensland. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical, Indo-west Pacific: Comores and Maldives, east to the Philippines, Palau, Papua New Guinea, and Fiji.
Inhabits caves and crevices often on drop offs.

Etymology

The specific name anaima is from the Greek anaimos (= bloodless, pallid, pale or anaemic), in allusion to the pale, almost washed-out colouration of the species.

Species Citation

Trimma anaima Winterbottom, 2000, aqua, J. Ichthyol. Aquat. Biol. 4(2): 58, fig. 1. Type locality: off Al Almal hotel just east of Matsumudu, 12°09'30"S, 44°24'00"E, Anjouan Island, Comoro Islands, southwestern Indian Ocean, depth 6-18 m.

Author

Bray, D.J. 2020

Resources

Atlas of Living Australia

Sharpeye Pygmygoby, Trimma anaima Winterbottom 2000

References


Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth : Tropical Reef Research 3 vols, 1260 pp.

Greenfield, D. 2016.  Trimma anaima. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T193066A2190733. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T193066A2190733.en. Downloaded on 16 May 2018.

Hagiwara, K. & Winterbottom, R. 2007. Two new species of Trimma (Gobiidae) from the western Pacific. Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science (A) Supplement 1: 163-174 See ref online

Kuiter R.H. & Tonozuka, T. 2001. Pictorial guide to Indonesian reef fishes. Part 3. Melbourne : Zoonetics pp. 623–893 (as Trimma amaina)

Winterbottom, R. 1990. The Trimmatom nanus species complex (Actinopterygii, Gobiidae): phylogeny and progenetic heterochrony. Systematic Zoology 39: 253-265. https://doi.org/10.2307/2992185  (as Trimma RW sp. 28)

Winterbottom, R. 2000. Four new species of Trimma (Gobiidae), from the Indian and western Pacific oceans. aqua, Journal of Ichthyology and Aquatic Biology 4(2): 57-66 See ref online

Winterbottom, R. 2019. An illustrated key to the described valid species of Trimma (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation 34: 1-61 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3525430

Winterbottom, R. & Hoese, D.F. 2015. A revision of the Australian species of Trimma (Actinopterygii, Gobiidae), with descriptions of six new species and redescriptions of twenty-three valid species. Zootaxa 3934: 1-102 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3934.1.1

Quick Facts


CAAB Code:37428336

Conservation:IUCN Least Concern

Depth:3-35 m

Habitat:Reef associated

Max Size:1.5 cm SL

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