Trimma striatum (Herre 1945)

Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, Zootaxa 4588 (1), pp. 1-360 : 290-291

Trimma striatum (Herre 1945) —Stripedhead dwarfgoby

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on USNM 262017 (1) from Nusa Island, Kavieng District. A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, at 6 m depth, by Dean Tully on 7 July 2011. NTUM 10565 (1 specimen, St. KB12, 6 June 2014) ; NTUM 11429 (1 specimen, KS47, 18 June 2014) ; NTUM 11468 (2 specimens, KS15, 6 June 2014) ; NTUM 11482 (4 specimens, St. KB28, 11 June 2014) .

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Maldives east to Palau and Fiji, north to Philippines, south to New Caledonia. Found in crevices in lagoon and seaward coral reefs, 0–30 m depth. Marine.