Silhouettea
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| Silhouettea | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| 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 | |
| Synonyms | |
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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]