Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Olfactores
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Gobiaria
Ordo: Gobiiformes
Subordo: Gobioidei
Familia: Gobiidae
Subfamilia: Gobiinae
Genus: Silhouettea
Species: S. aegyptia – S. capitlineata – S. chaimi – S. dotui – S. evanida – S. ghazalae – S. hoesei – S. indica – S. insinuans – S. nuchipunctatus – S. sibayi
Name
Silhouettea Smith, 1959: 213
Type species: Silhouettea insinuans ♀ Smith 1959. Type by original designation (also monotypic).
Synonyms
Minictenogobiops Goren, 1978: 192
Primary references
Smith, J.L.B. 1959: Gobioid fishes of the families Gobiidae, Periophthalmidae, Trypauchenidae, Taenioididae and Kraemeriidae of the western Indian Ocean. Ichthyological Bulletin of the J. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, 13: 185–225, Pls. 9-13.
References
Kovačić, M.; Bogorodsky, S. 2013: Silhouettea chaimi Goren, 1978, a junior synonym of Papillogobius melanobranchus (Fowler, 1934) (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Zootaxa 3613(4): 369–379. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.4.4 Reference page.
Kovačić, M., Sadeghi, R. & Esmaeili, H.R. 2020. New species of Silhouettea (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Qeshm Island, Iran and the DNA barcoding of the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea gobies. Zootaxa 4750(1): 49–66. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4750.1.3 Paywall Reference page.
Randall, J.E., 2008: Two new species and three new records of gobiid fishes from the Marshall Islands. Micronesica 40 (1/2): 285–303. Full article: [1].
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
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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