sihama, Atherina Fabricius [J. C.] in Niebuhr (ex Forsskål) 1775:70, xiii [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] [Lohajæ] Al-Luhayya, Yemen, Red Sea. Holotype (unique): ZMUC P45164 (dry skin). Type catalog: Nielsen 1974:62 [ref. 9588]. The populations in the Indo-Pacific are a complex, perhaps including several species [ref. 31243]; range of sihima restricted to the southern Red Sea. Authorship follows Fricke 2008:31 [ref. 30182]. •Valid as Sillago sihama (Forsskål 1775) -- (Dor 1984:119 [ref. 29757], Mochizuki in Masuda et al. 1984:151 [ref. 6441], McKay 1985:6 [ref. 5265], Ben-Tuvia in Whitehead et al. 1986:875 [ref. 13676], McKay 1986:615 [ref. 6300], Yu & Zhou in Kuang et al. 1986:226 [ref. 26639], Allen & Swainston 1988:62 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:564 [ref. 12442], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:818 [ref. 20764], Coad 1991:26 [ref. 15702], Ye in Pan et al. 1991:373 [ref. 23876], McKay 1992:58 [ref. 20879], Kottelat et al. 1993:110 [ref. 23448], Krishnan & Mishra 1993:222 [ref. 24016], Krishnan & Mishra 1994:288 [ref. 24014], Goren & Dor 1994:32 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:168 [ref. 22896], Kim & Lee 1996:23 [ref. 22285], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:263 [ref. 27969], Chen et al. 1997:58 [ref. 26476], Cheng & Zhou 1997:258 [ref. 26385], Reinthal & Stiassny 1997:354 [ref. 22780], Allen 1997:98 [ref. 23977], Larson & Williams 1997:358 [ref. 23967], Carpenter et al. 1997:153 [ref. 23922], Golani 1998:97 [ref. 27567], Myers 1999:134 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:237 [ref. 24106], Mishra & Srinivasan 1999:244 [ref. 24754], McKay 1999:2629 [ref. 24836], Mishra et al. 1999:86 [ref. 25315], Lim in Randall & Lim 2000:615 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:871 [ref. 25182], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:185 [ref. 25703], Kimura & Peristiwady in Matsuura & Peristiwady 2000:190 [ref. 27511], Suzuki et al. 2001:2 [ref. 25180], Sakai et al. 2001:96 [ref. 25693], Hutchins 2001:32 [ref. 25847], Wang et al. 2001:219 [ref. 26566], Allen et al. 2002:339 [ref. 25930], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:81 [ref. 26753], Nakabo 2002:871 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:322, 599 [ref. 26218], Allen & Adrim 2003:37 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S106 [ref. 27377], Kimura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:71 [ref. 27510], Khan 2003:9 [ref. 27710], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:29 [ref. 27712], Adrim et al. 2004:120 [ref. 27715], Heemstra et al. 2004:3322 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:266 [ref. 28072], Golani 2005:38 [ref. 37112], Randall 2005:216 [ref. 28239], Paxton et al. 2006:1125 [ref. 29086], Fricke et al. 2007:82 [ref. 29533], Fricke et al. 2009:53 [ref. 30213], Satapoomin 2009:111 [ref. 30463], Coad 2010:261 [ref. 36620], Kaga et al. 2010:367 [ref. 31044], Gao et al. 2011:260 [ref. 31226], Golani et al. 2011:467 [ref. 31243], Allen & Erdmann 2012:419 [ref. 31980], Kaga et al. 2012:65 [ref. 32233], Bae et al. 2013:291 [ref. 36299], Golani et al. 2013:13 [ref. 32789], Kaga 2013:95 [ref. 32686], Larson et al. 2013:116 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:331 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:111 [ref. 34464], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:421 [ref. 33460], Fricke et al. 2014:80 [ref. 33932], Psomadakis et al. 2015:212 [ref. 34104], Satapoomin in Kimura et al. 2015:41 [ref. 34319], Xiao et al. 2016:9 [ref. 35074], Panhwar et al. 2017:[5] [ref. 35316], Motomura et al. 2017:160 [ref. 35490], Ali et al. 2018:320 [ref. 36183], Fricke et al. 2018:176 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:80 [ref. 36273], Jawad et al. 2018:105 [ref. 36262] as S. sihama s.l., Satapoomin in Kimura et al. 2018:120 [ref. 36460], Suresh et al. 2018:192 [ref. 36495], Zajonz et al. 2019:74 [ref. 36871] as cf. sihama, Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 27 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:412 [ref. 37272], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:157 [ref. 41223], Zajonz et al. 2022:101 [ref. 40522], Jamandre 2023:173 [ref. 40455]). •Valid as Sillago sihama (Fabricius 1775) -- (Fricke 2008:31 [ref. 30182], Xiao et al. 2021:97 [ref. 38073], Taki et al. 2021:371 [ref. 39830], Heemstra 2022:388 [ref. 39850], Saha et al. 2022:14 [ref. 39210], Yu et al. 2022:1341 [ref. 39787], Allen & Erdmann 2024:447 [ref. 40796], Endruweit 2024:67 [ref. 41040], Saha et al. 2024:463 [ref. 41370]). Current status: Valid as Sillago sihama (Fabricius 1775). Sillaginidae. Distribution: Southern Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, South Africa, Madagascar, Mascarenes and Persian Gulf east to Philippines and Solomon Islands, north to Korea and southern Japan, south to Western Australia, Queensland (Australia) at 21°09'S and New Caledonia. Possibly restricted to southern Red Sea and Indian Ocean (Saha et al. 2024:466 [ref. 41370]). Habitat: brackish, marine.