WoRMS taxon details
Trimma winterbottomi Randall & Downing, 1994
278520 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:278520)
accepted
Species
Gobius townsendi Boulenger, 1897 · unaccepted (ambiguous synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Randall, J. E.; Downing, N.; McCarthy, L. J.; Stanaland, B. E.; Tarr, A. B. (1994). Fifty-one new records of fishes from the Arabian Gulf. <em>Fauna of Saudi Arabia.</em> 14: 220-258. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Trimma winterbottomi Randall & Downing, 1994. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=278520 on 2026-07-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Randall, J. E.; Downing, N.; McCarthy, L. J.; Stanaland, B. E.; Tarr, A. B. (1994). Fifty-one new records of fishes from the Arabian Gulf. <em>Fauna of Saudi Arabia.</em> 14: 220-258. [details]
original description (of Gobius townsendi Boulenger, 1897) Boulenger, G. A. (1897). Descriptions of new fishes from the Mekran coast, Persia. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 6).</em> v. 20 (no. 119) (art. 49): 420-422., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939708680655
page(s): 421 [details]
original description (of Gobius townsendi Boulenger, 1897) Boulenger, G. A. (1897). Descriptions of new fishes from the Mekran coast, Persia. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 6).</em> v. 20 (no. 119) (art. 49): 420-422., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939708680655
page(s): 421 [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present
Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Gobius townsendi Boulenger, 1897)
To FishBase (from synonym Gobius townsendi Boulenger, 1897)
To FishBase
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Trimma winterbottomi FIN028871 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Trimma winterbottomi FIN028872 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Gobius townsendi Boulenger, 1897)
To FishBase (from synonym Gobius townsendi Boulenger, 1897)
To FishBase
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Trimma winterbottomi FIN028871 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Trimma winterbottomi FIN028872 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS