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Issue: Vol. 4577 No. 3: 8 Apr. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-04-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4577.3.10
Page range: 571–578
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A new species of Trimma (Pisces; Gobiidae) from the Western Pacific Ocean

Curator Emeritus, Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ont., Canada M5S 2C6 Professor Emeritus, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., Canada M5S 1A1.
Conservation International Indonesia Marine Program, Jl. Dr. Muwardi No. 17, Renon, Denpasar 80235, Indonesia California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Pisces taxonomy pygmygoby DNA barcoding coral reef gobies

Abstract

A new species of Trimma, T. wangunui, is described from three localities in the western Pacific (Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and the Philippines). It belongs to a small group of species with scales in the predorsal midline, no scales on the cheek or the opercle, all pectoral fin rays unbranched, and a branched fifth pelvic fin ray. It differs from other species in this group in having an elongate second spine of the first dorsal fin which reaches to the bases of the 2nd–8th second dorsal-fin rays when adpressed, in having yellow bars on the head, and in the presence of vertically elongate yellow spots on a brown body when freshly collected.

 

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