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The new species can be distinguished from its congeners by the following combination of characters: predorsal midline with scales; fifth pelvic-fin ray unbranched and 41\u201343% length of the fourth ray; cheek and opercle scaleless; 14 pectoral-fin rays, all unbranched; dorsal fins VI + I,8, with no elongate spines; anal-fin I,8; bony interorbital width 55\u201362% of pupil diameter; and 6 papillae in row c. In life,\n                    <jats:italic>T. charon<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:bold>sp. nov<\/jats:bold>\n                    . is translucent with a distinct, broad, orange-red midlateral stripe extending from the eye to the caudal-fin base and interrupted by three narrow pale bars, and with conspicuous golden spots on the caudal fin that extend onto the caudal peduncle; the iris is divided into four uneven white\/orange sectors. The species is known from two specimens collected at the entrance of a cave on a steep outer-reef slope.\n                    <jats:italic>Trimma charon<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:bold>sp. nov<\/jats:bold>\n                    . was compared with congeners, especially with the very similar\n                    <jats:italic>T. anaima<\/jats:italic>\n                    and co-occurring Red Sea species. An illustrated dichotomous key to all\n                    <jats:italic>Trimma<\/jats:italic>\n                    currently known from the Red Sea is provided. With the description of\n                    <jats:italic>T. charon<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:bold>sp. nov<\/jats:bold>\n                    ., the number of valid species in the Red Sea rises to 11.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3897\/zookeys.1293.204097","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,24]],"date-time":"2026-09-24T13:04:28Z","timestamp":1790255068000},"page":"1-16","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Trimma charon, a new species of pygmygoby (Teleostei, Gobiidae) from the Red Sea with a key to the Red Sea species of the genus"],"prefix":"10.3897","volume":"1293","author":[{"given":"Viktor N.","family":"Peinemann","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Marine Science Program, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sergey V.","family":"Bogorodsky","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Matthew D.","family":"Tietbohl Talas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Marine Science Program, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Michael L.","family":"Berumen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Marine Science Program, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"2258","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"204097_B1","unstructured":"Akihito, Sakamoto K, Iwata A, Ikeda Y (1993) Cephalic sensory organs of the gobioid fishes. 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