insinuans, Silhouettea Smith [J. L. B.] 1959:214, Pl. 11 (fig. E), Fig. 33 [Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University No. 13; ref. 4122] Silhouette, Seychelles, western Indian Ocean. Holotype: SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 204. Paratypes: AMSI.19410-001(2); SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 884-889 (2, 1, 1, 10, 16, 1), 895 (16). •Valid as Silhouettea insinuans Smith 1959 -- (Goren 1979:53 [ref. 1852], Dor 1984:250 [ref. 29757], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:254 [ref. 6441], Hoese 1986:803 [ref. 5670], Maugé 1986:384 [ref. 6218], Larson & Miller 1986:117 [ref. 5803], Miller 1988:249 [ref. 26483], Goren & Dor 1994:66 [ref. 25356], Nakabo 2000:1239 [ref. 25182], Hutchins 2001:44 [ref. 25847], Larson & Murdy 2001:3599 [ref. 26293], Nakabo 2002:1239 [ref. 26193], Heemstra et al. 2004:3329 [ref. 27945], Hoese & Larson 2006:1684 [ref. 29097], Randall 2008:297 [ref. 29721], Fricke et al. 2013:270 [ref. 32706], Golani & Fricke 2018:160 [ref. 36273], Kovačić et al. 2020:55 [ref. 37377], Parenti 2021:222 [ref. 38603], Larson 2022:133 [ref. 39971], Bogorodsky & Goren 2023:23 [ref. 40247]). Current status: Valid as Silhouettea insinuans Smith 1959. Gobiidae: Gobiinae. Distribution: Red Sea; western Indian Ocean: East Africa, Seychelles, Mozambique Channel and eastern Mascarenes (Rodrigues) east to Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory). [Pacific records unreliable: northern Western Australia; Ryukyu Islands and southern Japan]. IUCN (2019): Least Concern. Habitat: brackish, marine.