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| Trimma panemorfum Winterbottom & Pyle, 2022 |
Abstract
A new species of Trimma is described from three specimens from deep reefs (91.4 m) at Uchelbeluu Reef, Palau, western Pacific Ocean. Trimma panemorfum n. sp. is characterized by a live colouration of a yellow to orange body with two light blue stripes, each with a ventral bar of the same colour from the anterior origin. The predorsal midline is scaled, opercular and cheek scales are absent, the middle 12–13 pectoral-fin rays are branched, the fifth pelvic-fin ray has two dichotomous branch points (total of four branch tips), the bony interorbital is 34–42% pupil width and does not extend ventrolaterally beyond the fifth papilla of row p, where the posterior interorbital trench is present as a slight groove or absent.
Keywords: Pisces, taxonomy, pygmygoby, coral reef gobies, mesophotic coral ecosystems
Trimma panemorfum n. sp.
Richard Winterbottom and Richard L. Pyle. 2022. A New Species of Trimma (Pisces: Gobiidae) from the Deep Reefs of Palau, western Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa. 5094(4); 595-600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5094.4.5