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WoRMS taxon details

Trimmatom Winterbottom & Emery, 1981

AphiaID

205437 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205437)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Gobiinae Cuvier, 1816

Synonymised names

Trimatom · unaccepted (misspelling)

Trimmaton · unaccepted (misspelling)

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Species Trimmatom eviotops (Schultz, 1943)
Species Trimmatom macropodus Winterbottom, 1989
Species Trimmatom nanus Winterbottom & Emery, 1981
Species Trimmatom offucius Winterbottom & Emery, 1981
Species Trimmatom pharus Winterbottom, 2001
Species Trimmatom sagma Winterbottom, 1989
Species Trimmatom zapotes Winterbottom, 1989

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Winterbottom, R.; Emery, A.R. (1981). A new genus and two new species of gobiid fishes (Perciformes) from the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean. Environ. Biol. Fish. 6(2):139-149., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00002777 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Trimmatom Winterbottom & Emery, 1981. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205437 on 2026-02-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-06-06 22:00:00Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2013-01-04 15:09:25Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

2013-03-07 07:11:13Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

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Nomenclature

original description Winterbottom, R.; Emery, A.R. (1981). A new genus and two new species of gobiid fishes (Perciformes) from the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean. Environ. Biol. Fish. 6(2):139-149., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00002777 [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [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]