Silhouettea aegyptia (Chabanaud, 1933)
Red Sea goby
Silhouettea aegyptia
photo by Miller, P.J.

 Family:  Gobiidae (Gobies), subfamily: Gobiinae
 Max. size:  5 cm TL (male/unsexed); max. reported age: 2 years
 Environment:  demersal
 Distribution:  Western Indian Ocean: Red Sea, including the Suez Canal.
 Diagnosis:  Dorsal spines (total): 6-8; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9-11; Anal spines: 1-1; Anal soft rays: 11-12
 Biology:  Inshore shallows, on sand. Feed on harpacticoid copepods and nematodes; also oligochaetes, gastropods and other meiobenthos. Life span probably does not go beyond 2 years (Ref. 44579).
 IUCN Red List Status:   (Ref. 96402)
 Threat to humans:  harmless
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 Entered by: Froese, Rainer - 27.04.00
 Modified by: Luna, Susan M. - 01.05.15

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