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) Evolution A number of sillaginids have been identified from the fossil record, with the lower Eocene marking the first appearance of the family. The family is thought to have evolved in the Tethys Sea of central Australia, before colonizing southern Australia during the upper Eocene after a seaway broke through south of Tasmania. During the Oligocene, the family spread to the north and south, occupying a much more extensive range than their current Indo-Pacific distribution. Fossils suggest the sillaginids ranged as far north as Poland and Germany, and as far south as New Zealand, found in shallow water sedimentary deposits along with other species of extant genera. At least eight fossil sillaginid species have been found, all of which are believed to be of the genus Sillago based on the only remains found, otoliths. Only one species of extant sillaginid, Sillago maculata,