Trimma readerae, Adult, Imperieuse Reef, Photo: Andrew Green
Trimma readerae, Adult, Imperieuse Reef, NW Australia, Photo: Andrew Green
Trimma readerae, Adult, Mermaid Reef, NW Australia, Photo: Andrew Green
Distribution
Description
Red/orange spots all over face and body. Spots on body look like vertical rectangles and tend to form rows. Almost identical to T. okinawae whose body spots are more circular in appearance and appear more randomly distributed. To 3cm.
Also very similar to T macropthalmus, but has slightly larger, often merged spots on lower head.
Information
Habitat: Coral Reef
Rarity
IUCN Threat Status: Vulnerable
Occurrence: Infrequent (4% of sites)
Occurrence describes how often the species is found on surveys within its distribution.
It is calculated as the % of reef sites surveyed by RLS divers across all the ecoregions in which the species has been observed
Abundance: Few (2 per transect)
Abundance is calculated as the average number of individuals recorded per RLS transect, where present.
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