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 23 Jan 2025, 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2020 |
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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
