Trimma yanoi Suzuki & Senou 2008
Other Names: Pudgy Pygmygoby, Yano's Dwarfgoby
Yano's Dwarfgoby, Trimma yanoi, from Maricaban Island, Batangas, Philippines - USNM 432611. Source: Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Fishes. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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Bray, D.J. 2025, Trimma yanoi in Fishes of Australia, accessed 20 Jul 2026, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/5183
Trimma yanoi Suzuki & Senou 2008
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Distribution |
Australian territories of Ashmore Reef in the Timor Sea, and Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean. Elsewhere the species is known from the East Indo-west Pacific: : Western Pacific: Malaysia east to Philippines, West Papua (Indonesia) and Solomon Islands, north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan). Inhabits caves and crevices. |
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Species Citation |
Trimma yanoi Suzuki & Senou 2008, Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science Series A Supplement. 2: 102, figs 5-7. Type locality: Sotobanare- minami, Funauki Bay, Iriomote-jima Island, the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2025 |
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Trimma yanoi Suzuki & Senou 2008
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., Steene, R.C. & Orchard, M. 2007. Fishes of Christmas Island. Christmas Island : Christmas Island Natural History Association 2 edn, 284 pp. (as Trimma sp.)
Goldsworthy, N.C., Srinivasan, M., Smallhorn-West, P., & Jones, G.P. 2025. Growth strategies across life-history stages and generational turnover of cryptobenthic coral reef fishes of the genus Trimma. Journal of Fish Biology: 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70224
Hobbs, J-P.A., Newman, S.J., Mitsopoulos, G.E.A., Travers, M.J., et al. 2014. Checklist and new records of Christmas Island fishes: the influence of isolation, biogeography and habitat availability on species abundance and community composition. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement 30: 184–202 (as Trimma sheppardi).
Larson, H. 2022. Trimma yanoi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T206074500A206074502. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T206074500A206074502.en. Accessed on 26 November 2025.
Suzuki, T. & Senou, H. 2008. Two new species of the gobiid fish genus Trimma (Perciformes: Gobioidei) from southern Japan. Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science Series A Supplement 2: 97-106
