Forktail Pygmygoby, Trimma hoesei Winterbottom 1984
Other Names: Forktail Dwarfgoby, Forktail Pygmy Goby
A Forktail Pygmygoby, Trimma hoesei, at Monad Shoals, Malapascua, Philippines, depth 46 m, January 2011. Source: Klaus Stiefel / Flickr. License: CC BY Attribution-NonCommercial
Summary:
A semi-translucent pygmygoby with a forked tail, a pinkish lower body, a vertical yellow streak on most scales, yellowish fins with pinkish streaks on the caudal fin, and bands/stripes on the dorsal and anal fins.
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Dianne J. Bray, Trimma hoesei in Fishes of Australia, accessed 18 Jan 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/484
Forktail Pygmygoby, Trimma hoesei Winterbottom 1984
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Distribution |
Known from the southern part of the Great Barrier Reef, and Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the eastern Indian Ocean. Elsewhere, the species occurs in the tropical Indo-west Pacific. Inhabits steep outer reef slopes, and is often seen swimming upside-down in caves. |
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Features |
Dorsal fin VI + I,9-10; Anal fin I,9-11; Pectoral fin 15-16, 9-10 branched; Longitudinal scale series 23-26; Predorsal scales 2-5. Body depth ~4.5-4.8 in SL; second and third dorsal-fin spines elongate; fifth pelvic-fin ray branched, equal in length to fourth ray; caudal fin forked; scales absent from cheek and opercle. |
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Species Citation |
Trimma hoesei Winterbottom 1984, Canadian J. Zool. 62: 704, figs 7, 18-19. Type locality: Chagos Archipelago. |
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Author |
Dianne J. Bray |
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Resources |
Forktail Pygmygoby, Trimma hoesei Winterbottom 1984
References
Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth : Tropical Reef Research 3 vols, 1260 pp.
Allen, G.R. & Smith-Vaniz, W.F. 1994. Fishes of Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin 412: 1-21.
Hobbs, J-P.A., Newman, S .J., Mitsopoulos, G.E.A., Travers, M.J., Skepper, C.L., Gilligan, J.J., Allen, G.R., Choat, H.J. & Ayling, A.M. 2014. Fishes of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands: new records, community composition and biogeographic significance. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement 30: 203–219.
Winterbottom, R. 1984. A review of the gobiid fish genus Trimma from the Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean, with description of seven new species. Canadian Journal of Zoology 62: 695-715.
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.
