Trimma
mendelssohni
(Goren, 1978)
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Family:
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Gobiidae
(Gobies), subfamily: Gobiinae
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Order:
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Perciformes
(perch-likes)
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Class:
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Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
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In this site name:
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Max. size:
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2.5 cm SL (male/unsexed; Ref. 57688) |
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Environment: |
reef-associated; marine; depth range 2 – 20 m
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Climate: |
tropical |
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Importance:
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Resilience: |
High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months(Preliminary K or Fecundity.)
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Distribution:
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Western Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aqaba to the islands of the western Indian Ocean as far south as Tulear, Madagascar; east to the Cargados Carajos shoals north of Mauritius
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Morphology:
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Diagnosis: Possess a frontal ridge that slopes variably (steeply, and with a ridge, to gradually, without a ridge) into the interorbital trench; postorbital trenches may be steep or shallow sided; posterior nasal opening adnate to eye; second spine of first dorsal fin occasionally elongate, third spine is not; eight or more elements in the second dorsal; fifth pelvic fin ray branched multiple times dichotomously, appearing bushy; 18 or more pectoral rays; scales on head; body color brown-red with five diffuse white vertical bars, between mid-peduncle to just anterior to origin of first dorsal; facial pattern with two white bars under orbit,
and one irregular white bar over vertical limb of the preopercle; a pair of thin fleshy lappets, half a pupil width apart, a quarter pupil width behind the frontal ridge, on either side of dorsal midline of the nape; epibranch of the first gill arch lacks gill rakers (Ref.57688).
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Biology: |
Collected over coral reef flats rising above the rubble-sandy bottom (Ref. 57688).
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Red List Status: |
Not in IUCN Red List (Ref. 57073)
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Dangerous:
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harmless
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