''Silhouettea sibayi'', the Barebreast goby or the Sibayi goby, is a species of
goby endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to
southern Africa
Southern Africa is the southernmost subregion of the African continent, south of the Congo and Tanzania. The physical location is the large part of Africa to the south of the extensive Congo River basin. Southern Africa is home to a number of ...
where it is known from lakes
Sibhayi and
St. Lucia
Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerin ...
and
Kosi Bay in South Africa, as well as from Piti Lake in Mozambique.
It inhabits areas with sandy substrates down to depths of about where it lives mostly buried in the sand. This species can reach a length of
SL.
References
Silhouettea
Freshwater fish of South Africa
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Fish described in 1970
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