Two new species of Trimma (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from The Western Pacific Ocean

Two new species of the small marine gobiid, Trimma, are described and illustrated. Trimma agrena, new species, from eastern Sabah, the Sulu Sea, and the Moluccas is diagnosed by many small bright orange to yellow orange spots and blotches on the head, dark brown, strongly outlined scale pockets, the absence of predorsal scales, and scales extending anteriorly at least to the midpoint between the rear margin of the eye and the anterior margin of the shoulder spot. The other new, apparently related, species, Trimma fangi, new species, was obtained during the Anambas expedition during March 2002 in the South China Sea. It is very similar to T. agrena, and may be distinguished by the larger bright orange spots and blotches on the head, a smaller rounded spot on the shoulder, larger orange spots in pectoral fin base, the absence of distinct dark outlines of scale pockets and in having the anterior limit of the body squamation ending at the dark shoulder spot.