Hard-drinking Atomgoby, Trimmatom zapotes Winterbottom 1989

Other Names: Hard-drinking Atom Goby

Summary:

A species of Atomgoby with a scaled body, unbranched pelvic-fin rays and red anterior nostrils.

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Bray, D.J. 2018, Trimmatom zapotes in Fishes of Australia, accessed 23 Jan 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/4170

Hard-drinking Atomgoby, Trimmatom zapotes Winterbottom 1989

More Info

Distribution	Scott Reef, Western Australia, and the northern Great Barrier Reef, and reefs in the Coral Sea. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical West Pacific.
Features	Dorsal fin VI + I, 8-9; Anal fin III; Pectoral fin 12-13; Pelvic fin I, 5; Caudal fin 17 (segmented rays); Gill rakers 1 + 5-6.
Size	To 15.5 mm SL
Colour	Colour of a freshly dead specimen: cheek and rear half of body yellow-green, translucent elsewhere, with 5 darkish internal body bars; anterior nasal tube red; a bar on the cheek below the pupil, 8 diffues saddles on back, and bases of caudal-fin rays pink; dorsal fins yellow; scale margins on rear half of body dark.
Feeding
Biology
Remarks
Similar Species	Trimmatom zapotes differs from all other species in the genus Trimmatom in having a scaled body and unbranched pelvic-fin rays.
Etymology	Named from the Greek zapotes, a hard drinker, in allusion to the red anterior nasal tubes of this species (Winterbottom, 1989).
Species Citation	Trimmatom zapotes Winterbottom 1989, Canadian Journal of Zoology 67: 2407, Figs. 5-7. Type locality: Palfrey island, Lizard Island Group, Queensland.
Author	Bray, D.J. 2018
Resources	Australian Faunal Directory

Hard-drinking Atomgoby, Trimmatom zapotes Winterbottom 1989

References

Dimara, R, A. Fauzan, M. Lazuardi, D. Pada, G.R. Allen, M.V. Erdmann, C.L. Huffard, L.S. Katz & R. Winterbottom. 2010. Pisces, Teleostei, Gobiidae, illustrated list of additions to the fauna of the Raja Ampat Islands, Indonesia. Check List 6(4): 619-625.

Moore, G.I., Morrison, S.M., Hutchins, B.J., Allen, G.R. & Sampey, A. 2014. Kimberley marine biota. Historical data: fishes. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 84: 161-206

Winterbottom, R. 1989. A revision of the Trimmatom nanus species complex (Pisces, Gobiidae), with descriptions of three new species and redefinition of Trimmatom. Canadian Journal of Zoology 67: 2403-2410.

Winterbottom, R. 1990. The Trimmatom nanus species complex (Actinopterygii, Gobiidae): Phylogeny and progenetic heterochrony. Systematic Zoology 39(3): 253-265.