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Etymology: Trimmatom: Greek, trimma, -atos = something crushed + Greek, tomos = cut (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Winterbottom.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Marine; reef-associated; depth range 0 - 28 m (Ref. 90102). Tropical
Indo-West Pacific: Seychelles, Cargados Carajos, Chagos Archipelago to Sumatra and the Philippines, north to Japan, south to Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the Timor Sea.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 2.2 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 90102)
Short description
Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
Dorsal spines (total): 6; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9; Anal soft rays: 9. Trimmatom pharus differs from T. nanus, T. offucius, and T. sagma in possessing scales on the body (vs naked) and branched pelvic fin rays (vs unbranched). Trimmatom zapotes, T. macropodus, and T. pharus all have body scales but T. zapotes has unbranched pelvic fin rays, and T. macropodus has the first four pelvic fin rays branched. Trimmatom pharus shares many meristic characteristics with T. eviotops including the presence of body scales and the branching of the first four pelvic fin rays; the two species do, however, differ in details of colour pattern. In preserved specimens the first body bar on T. eviotops crosses the pectoral base and the extends over the dorsum, passing backwards to the dorsal fin. In Trimmatom pharus the body bar which crosses the pectoral base crosses the dorsal surface anterior to the dorsal fin. Trimmatom eviotops has a broad dark saddle on the dorsall half of the caudal peduncle, while Trimmatom pharus has a narrow body bar or small dark saddle (Ref. 52310).
Inhabits shoals, reefs and lagoons in 0-28 m (Ref. 90102).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Winterbottom, R., 2001. Two new gobiid fish species in Trimma and Trimmatom (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans. aqua, J. Ichthyol. Aquat. Biol. 5(1):19-24. (Ref. 52310)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Fisheries: of no interest
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature (Ref.
123201): 23.5 - 29.3, mean 28.2 °C (based on 2040 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5078 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00724 (0.00339 - 0.01546), b=3.10 (2.92 - 3.28), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.0 ±0.3 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
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).
