Trimmatom nanus

Taxobox
name = "Trimmatom nanus"
status = secure
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
subordo = Gobioidei
familia = Gobiidae
genus = "Trimmatom"
species = "T. nanus"
binomial = "Trimmatom nanus"
binomial_authority = Winterbottom & Emery, 1981

"Trimmatom nanus" is a species of marine fish in family Gobiidae of Perciformes. It is the type species of its genus. One of the fishes called dwarf gobies, it is native to the Chagos Archipelago and the Maldives in the western Indian Ocean.

With adults growing to a total overall length of just over 10 mm (less than one-half inch), "T. nanus" was until 2004 the shortest known fish and vertebrate. The recent discovery of "Schindleria brevipinguis" (called the stout infantfish) relegated it to second place. After discovery of Paedocypris progenetica, Trimmatom nanus is on third place

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External links

* [http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/faq/secsmallest.htm What is the second smallest species of fish? ]