| Silhouettea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | Silhouettea J. L. B. Smith, 1959 |
| Type species | |
| Silhouettea insinuans J. L. B. Smith, 1959 | |
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Silhouettea is a genus of gobies native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. The name of this genus refers to the island of Silhouette in the Seychelles where the type specimens of the type species, Silhouettea insinuans, were collected.
Species
There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:
- Silhouettea aegyptia (Chabanaud, 1933) (Red Sea goby)
- Silhouettea capitlineta J. E. Randall, 2008
- Silhouettea chaimi Goren, 1978
- Silhouettea dotui (Takagi, 1957)
- Silhouettea evanida Larson & P. J. Miller, 1986
- Silhouettea hoesei Larson & P. J. Miller, 1986
- Silhouettea indica Visweswara Rao, 1971
- Silhouettea insinuans J. L. B. Smith, 1959 (Phantom goby)
- Silhouettea nuchipunctatus (Herre, 1934)
- Silhouettea sibayi Farquharson, 1970 (Barebreast goby)
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Silhouettea". FishBase. June 2013 version.
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (24 July 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (r-z)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
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| Silhouettea | |
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