page_title: Sillaginidae
section_title: Classification
hierarchical_section_title: Sillaginidae / Taxonomy / Classification
caption_attribution_description: Higher detail, png drawing of same fish - Sillaginopsis panijus - better quality
context_page_description: The Sillaginidae, commonly known as the smelt-whitings, whitings, sillaginids, sand borers and sand-smelts, are a family of benthic coastal marine fish in the order Perciformes. The smelt-whitings inhabit a wide region covering much of the Indo-Pacific, from the west coast of Africa east to Japan and south to Australia. The family comprises only five genera and 35 species, of which a number are dubious, with the last major revision of the family in 1992 unable to confirm the validity of a number of species. They are elongated, slightly compressed fish, often light brown to silver in colour, with a variety of markings and patterns on their upper bodies. The Sillaginidae are not related to a number of fishes commonly called 'whiting' in the Northern Hemisphere, including the fish originally called whiting, Merlangius merlangus.
  The smelt-whitings are mostly inshore fishes that inhabit sandy, silty, and muddy substrates on both low- and high-energy environments ranging from protected tidal flats and estuaries to surf zones.
context_section_description: The following is a comprehensive list of the 35 known extant species of sillaginids, with a number of the species still in doubt due to the loss of the holotype specimen. This classification follows Fishbase, which itself is based on McKay's last revision of the family.
  Family SILLAGINIDAE
  Genus Sillaginodes
  Sillaginodes punctatus Cuvier, 1829 (King George whiting)
  Genus Sillaginopodys
  Sillaginopodys chondropus Bleeker, 1849 (Club-foot whiting)
  Genus Sillaginops
  Sillaginops macrolepis Bleeker, 1859 (Large-scale whiting)
  Genus Sillaginopsis
  Sillaginopsis panijus Hamilton, 1822 (Gangetic whiting)
  Genus Sillago
  Sillago aeolus D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1902 (Oriental sillago)
  Sillago analis Whitley, 1943 (Golden-lined sillago)
  Sillago arabica McKay & McCarthy, 1989 (Arabian sillago)
  Sillago argentifasciata C. Martin & H. R. Montalban, 1935 (Silver-banded sillago)
  Sillago asiatica McKay, 1982 (Asian sillago)
  Sillago attenuata McKay, 1985 (Slender sillago)
  Sillago bassensis G. Cuvier, 1829 (Western school sillago)
  Sillago boutani Pellegrin, 1905 (Boutan's sillago)
  Sillago burrus Richardson, 1842 (Western trumpeter sillago)
  Sillago caudicula Kaga, Imamura, Nakaya, 2010
  Sillago ciliata G. Cuvier, 1829 (Sand sillago)
  Sillago erythraea G. Cuvier, 1829
  Sillago flindersi McKay, 1985 (Flinders' sillago)
  Sillago indica McKay, Dutt & Sujatha, 1985 (Indian sillago)
  Sillago ingenuua McKay, 1985 (Bay sillago)
  Sillago intermedius Wongratana, 1977 (Intermediate sillago)
  Sillago japonica Temminck & Schlegel, 1843 (Japanese sillago)
  Sillago lutea McKay, 1985 (Mud sillago)
  Sillago maculata Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 (Trumpeter sillago)
  Sillago megacephalus S. Y. Lin, 1933 (Large-headed sillago)
  Sillago microps McKay, 1985 (Small-eyed sillago)
  Sillago nierstraszi Hardenberg, 1941 (Rough sillago)
  Sillago parvisquamis T. N. Gill, 1861 (Small-scale sillago)
  Sillago robusta Stead, 1908 (Stout sillago)
  Sillago schomburgkii W. K. H. Peters, 1864 (Yellowfin sillago)
  Sillago sihama Forsskål, 1775 (Silver sillago)
  Sillago sinica T. X. Gao, D. P. Ji, Y. S. Xiao, T. Q. Xue, Yanagimoto & Setoguma, 2011 (Chinese sillago)
  Sillago soringa Dutt & Sujatha, 1982 (Soringa sillago)
  Sillago suezensis Golani, R. Fricke & Tikochinski, 2013 
  Sillago vincenti McKay, 1980 (Vincent's sillago)
  Sillago vittata McKay, 1985 (Banded sillago)
caption: Sillaginopsis panijus
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