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Trimma

Trimma emeryi

Winterbottom, 1985

Emery’s Goby

Likely Reef Tank Suitable

Likely Fish-Only Tank Suitable

Range: Indo-West Pacific Ocean: Comoro Islands and Chagos Archipelago east to Tonga, and north to Southern Japan.

Size: 1 inch (2 cm)

Natural Environment: Inhabits outer reefs slopes and usually found at depths between 6 to 130 feet (2 – 40 m) where it feeds on zooplankton.

General Husbandry: Not collected for the trade.

Taxonomy:

    Order: Perciformes

    Suborder: Gobioidei

    Family: Gobiidae

    Genus: Trimma

FYI: Shown here for identification only, yet should it or others in this genus become available, aquarium husbandry similar to T. cana would suffice.

 Trimma emeryi (Emery’s Goby)
Photo © John Randall
Trimma cana Trimma fishelsoni
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