Trimma nasa Winterbottom 2005

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

Trimma nasa Winterbottom 2005 —Nasal dwarfgoby

Status at New Ireland. Reported from New Ireland in original description by Winterbottom (2005: 36), based on WAM P28126-013 ; a video of a specimen taken east of Albatross Passage , southwestern Kavieng District , 2–38 m depth, St. KR 44, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell); another taken at Tungelo Island, off southeastern New Hanover, at 3–46 m depth, St. KR 104, in 2014.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Central Indonesia east to Palau and Fiji, north to Philippines, south to Queensland ( Australia) and New Caledonia. Found in loose schools near caves and overhangs, 5–41 m depth. Marine.