 Cuvier continued to describe species of sillaginid with the publishing of his ichthyological work "Histoire Naturelle des Poissons" with Achille Valenciennes in 1829, also erecting the genus "Sillaginodes" in this work.The species "Cheilodipterus panijus" was named in 1822 by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton and was subsequently reexamined by Theodore Gill in 1861, leading to the creation of the monotypic genus "Sillaginopsis".John Richardson was the first to propose that "Sillago", the only genus of sillaginid then recognised, be assigned to their own taxonomic family, "Sillaginidae" (used interchangeably with 'Sillaginoidae'), at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.