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Chanda
Chanda nama
Scientific classification e
: [[Template:Taxonomy/Chanda]]
Hamilton, 1822
Synonyms
  • Bogoda

Bleeker, 1853

  • Hamiltonia

Swainson, 1839

Chanda is a genus of fish in the family Ambassidae, the Asiatic glassfishes. The name is an allusion to the local name for glassfishes in India, though this common name is used across several genera.[1] Before recent expansion, the genus was formerly monotypic including only C. nama, and both species and genus were first described by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton in 1822.[2]

Species[edit | edit source]

The Catalog of Fishes lists 13 species:[3]

(Datta & Chaudhuri, 1993)

Hamilton, 1822 (Himalayan glassy perchlet)

(Geetakumari, 2012)

Hamilton, 1822 (Elongate glassy perchlet)

(Blyth, 1860)

(Kottelat, 2003) (Humphead glassy perchlet)

Hamilton, 1822 (Indian glassy perchlet)

(Datta & Chaudhuri, 1993)

(Dishma & Vishwanath, 2015)[4]

Fowler, 1937 (Indochinese glassy perchlet)

(Roberts, 1995)

(Roberts, 1995)

(Geetakumari & Basudha, 2012)[5]

Synonyms
  • Chanda lala

Hamilton, 1822 valid as Pseudambassis lala (Hamilton, 1822)

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (10 February 2025). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Families AMBASSIDAE, GRAMMATIDAE, PLESIOPIDAE, OPISTOGNATHIDAE, POLYCENTRIDAE, EMBIOTOCIDAE and PHOLIDICHTHYIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 31 March 2025.
  2. Template:FishBase genus
  3. Template:Catalog of Fishes
  4. Mayanglambam, D.; Vishwanath, W. (2015). "Parambassis serrata, a new species of glassperch (Teleostei: Ambassidae) from the Kaladan drainage, India". Zootaxa. 4040 (5): 583–588. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4040.5.7. PMID 26624693.
  5. Geetakumari, K.; Basudha, C. (2012). "Parambassis waikhomi, a new species of glassfish (Teleostei: Ambassidae) from Loktak Lake, northeastern India" (PDF). Journal of Threatened Taxa. 4 (14): 3327–3332. doi:10.11609/JoTT.o3060.3327-32.