A revision of the Australian species of Trimma (Actinopterygii, Gobiidae), with descriptions of six new species and redescriptions of twenty-three valid species
Author
Winterbottom, Richard
Author
Hoese, Douglass F.
text
Zootaxa
2015
3934
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1
102
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3934.1.1
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Trimma maiandros
Hoese, Winterbottom & Reader, 2011
Zigzag Pygmygoby
Fig. 26–27
, Pl. 2 D
Trimma maiandros
Hoese, Winterbottom & Reader, 2011
:146
(Yonge Reef, Queensland,
Australia
);
Allen & Erdmann 2012
:941
Cocos (Keeling) Ids to
Marshall
Ids and
Japan
).
Trimma
sp.:
Hayashi & Shiratori, 2003
:44
; Yano 1988:4.
Trimma
sp. 2:
Senou
et al.
, 2004
:108
.
The detailed description of this species has been published very recently (
Hoese
et al.
, 2011
), and only the Diagnosis is repeated here. The distribution is given in
Fig. 27
.
FIGURE 26.
Trimma maiandros
AMS I.20757-081, Raine Id., Queensland. Photo by D. F. Hoese.
Diagnosis.
A species of
Trimma
with a partly scaled predorsal region, midline naked or partly naked, cycloid scales at the sides of the nape reaching to above a point between posterior margin of the operculum and the eyes; cheek and operculum naked; pectoral-fin base usually fully scaled with posterodorsal 2 scales slightly enlarged; prepelvic region covered with small cycloid scales in 5–6 rows; interorbital narrow, with a moderate groove; no or very shallow groove behind this; a distinct low ridge at the posterior end of the interorbital; a low crest on the nape from the first dorsal origin to above the posterior opercular margin, extending anteriorly into a shallow median groove, groove extending to just behind eyes; second dorsal rays usually
I 9
; anal rays usually
I 8
; pectoral rays unbranched or with 1–5 rays branched at the extreme tips; fifth pelvic ray unbranched and about one-fourth to onehalf the length of the fourth ray, other rays with 2 terminal tips, pelvic fins largely separate, connected only at base, fins widely separate, the distance between the two fins being greater than the width of the base of a single fin; posteriormost prepelvic scale covering the basal membrane; a dark brown spot or bar extending posteroventrally from the eye; and the body with irregular brown interconnecting bars, forming a zigzag pattern (
Fig. 26
).