Stripehead Goby, Trimma capostriatum (Goren 1981)

Other Names: Spotted Redlined Pygmygoby

Summary:

A pygmy goby with 5-6 pale orange to red stripes on head with dark blue interspaces, distinct pale yellowish-orange, orange or reddish body oval to round spots scattered on the body, orange stripes on the snout, a uniformly dark lower lip, and the lower surface of the head with a black curved stripe and a median black bar connecting to the lower lip.

Previously considered to be a synonym of Trimma striatum which also oocurs in Australia.

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Bray, D.J. 2025, Trimma capostriatum in Fishes of Australia, accessed 19 Jul 2026, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/5029

Stripehead Goby, Trimma capostriatum (Goren 1981)

More Info

Distribution	Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, and Ashmore Reef and Swains Reefs in the Coral Sea. Elsewhere the species is known from Indonesia (West Papua), Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Palau and New Caledonia. Inhabits sandy and muddy areas near middle and outer reefs on the Great Barrier Reef.
Remarks
Species Citation	Zonogobius capostriatus Goren, 1981, Cybium 3e 5(3): 94, fig. 1. Type locality: Canala Bay, New Caledonia.
Author	Bray, D.J. 2025
Resources	Atlas of Living Australia Australian Faunal Directory Catalog of Fishes

Stripehead Goby, Trimma capostriatum (Goren 1981)

References

Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2024. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Second Edition. Volumes I-III. Perth, Australia : Tropical Reef Research.

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

Goren, M. 1981. Three new species and three new records of gobies from New Caledonia. Cybium 3e 5(3): 93-101 figs 1-5

Greenfield, D. 2016. Trimma capostriatum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T95999331A96004817. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T95999331A96004817.en. Accessed on 26 November 2025.

Hoese, D.F. & Larson, H.K. 2006. Family Gobiidae. pp. 1612-1697 in Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp. (in part as T. striatum)

Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 557 pp. figs. (in part as T. striatum)

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. (in part as T. striata)

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., Erdmann, M.V. & Cahyani, N.K.D. 2014. Three new species of Trimma (Pisces: Gobiidae) from Indonesia. Zootaxa 3838(3): 367-384.

Winterbottom, R., Hanner, R.H., Burridge, M. & Zur, M. 2014. A cornucopia of cryptic species - a DNA barcode analysis of the gobiid fish genus Trimma (Percomorpha, Gobiiformes). ZooKeys 381: 79–111. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.381.6445

Winterbottom, R. & Hoese, D. 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.