Silhouettea

Silhouettea
Scientific classification
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
Synonyms
  • Minictenogobiops Goren, 1978

Silhouettea is a genus of gobies native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.[1] 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.[2]

Species

There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:[1]

  • 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

  1. 1 2 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Silhouettea in FishBase. June 2013 version.
  2. ↑ 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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