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Common names: Wangunu's pygmygoby
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: scarce (very unlikely) | Ref: Winterbottom, R. and M.V. Erdmann, 2019
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Type locality of Trimma wangunui, Milne Bay Province, Little China (about 3.5 km SW off Nuakata Island) (Ref. 119765)
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Winterbottom, R. and M.V. Erdmann, 2019
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Gobiiformes (Gobies) > Gobiidae (Gobies) > Gobiinae
Etymology: Trimma: Greek, trimma, -atos = something crushed (Ref. 45335); wangunui: Named for Noel Wangunu, a reef scientist and marine conservationist in papua New Guinea..

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; reef-associated; depth range 8 - 50 m (Ref. 119765), usually 10 - 16 m (Ref. 119765). Tropical

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Western Central Pacific: Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste and Philippines.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 2.1 cm SL (female)

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Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 8; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 8. This species is distinguished by the following characters: scales in the predorsal midline; no scales on the cheek or opercle; elongated second spine of the first dorsal fin reaching to the bases of the 2nd-8th second dorsal-fin rays when adpressed; unbranched pectoral-fin rays; fifth pelvic-fin ray branched with a full basal membrane; when fresh, yellow bars on the head and vertically elongate yellow spots on brown body (Ref. 119765).

This species appears to be a rare species, with seven specimens collected mostly between 10-16 m. Found living under large pieces of dead foliose coral rubble on a sandy bottom subject to moderate currents and wave action. It is apparently a solitary species, only a single specimen collected from each piece of rubble examined (Ref. 119765).

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Winterbottom, R. and M.V. Erdmann, 2019. A new species of Trimma (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the Western Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa 4577(3):571-578. (Ref. 119765)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 07 September 2021

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00708 (0.00333 - 0.01504), b=3.09 (2.92 - 3.26), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Resilience (Ref. 120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

Trimma wangunui Winterbottom & Erdmann, 2019