Redlined Pygmygoby, Trimma striatum (Herre 1945)


Other Names: Redlined Pygmy Goby, Red-lined Pygmy Goby, Red-lined Pygmy-goby, Stripehead Dwarfgoby, Stripehead Goby

A Redlined Pygmygoby, Trimma striatum, swimming upsidedown in a cavern at Osprey Islet, Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland. Source: Anne Hoggett / Lizard Island Field Guide, http://lifg.australianmuseum.net.au/. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

Summary:
A purplish pygmygoby with six reddish-orange stripes on the head and anterior body, and an elongate filamentous second dorsal-fin spine.

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Bray, D.J. 2020, Trimma striatum in Fishes of Australia, accessed 29 Mar 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/169

Redlined Pygmygoby, Trimma striatum (Herre 1945)

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Distribution

Hibernia Reef, Western Australia, to Ashmore Reef in the Timor Sea. Elsewhere the species occurs in the east-Indo-west-central Pacific. 
Individuals or small groups shelter in caves, crevices and beneath ledges in deep lagoons and on protected outer reef slopes.

Features

Dorsal fin V-VI + I,9; Anal fin I,8; Longitudinal scale series 26-27. 
Body depth about 4.0 in SL; second dorsal-fin spine usually elongate and filamentous; fifth pelvic-fin ray branched, 60-70% length of fourth ray; predorsal scales absent; cheek and opercle without scales.

Etymology

The specific name striatum is from the Latin striatus (= striped) in reference to the longitudinal stripes on the head.

Species Citation

Coronogobius striatus Herre, 1945, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 58(19): 81. Type locality:among the coral heads of the little dock at Coron, Busuanga Island, Philippines.

Author

Bray, D.J. 2020

Resources

Atlas of Living Australia

Redlined Pygmygoby, Trimma striatum (Herre 1945)

References


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

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 striatum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T193174A2204872. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T193174A2204872.en. Downloaded on 28 July 2020.

Herre, A.W. 1945. Notes on fishes in the Zoological Museum of Stanford University. 19. Two new Philippine gobies with vomerine teeth. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 58(19): 77-82. See ref at BHL

Kuiter, R.H. 1992. Tropical Reef-Fishes of the Western Pacific, Indonesia and Adjacent Waters. Jakarta : PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama 314 pp. pls.

Kuiter, R.H. 1996. Guide to Sea Fishes of Australia. A comprehensive reference for divers and fishermen. Sydney, NSW, Australia : New Holland Publishers xvii, 434 pp.

Myers, R.F. 1999. Micronesian Reef Fishes. A comprehensive guide to the coral reef fishes of Micronesia. Guam : Coral Graphics vi 330 pp. 192 pls.

Randall, J.E. 2005. Reef and shore fishes of the South Pacific. New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press 707 pp.

Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1990. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 507 pp. figs.

Randall, J.E. & Goren, M. 1993. A review of the gobioid fishes of the Maldives. Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute, Grahamstown 58: 1-37.

Winterbottom, R. 2019. An illustrated key to the described valid species of Trimma (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation 34: 1-61. http://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): 1-102. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3934.1.1

Quick Facts


CAAB Code:37428271

Conservation:IUCN Least Concern

Depth:1-40 m

Fishing:Aquarium fish

Habitat:Reef associated

Max Size:3 cm TL

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