Chanda (fish)

Chanda
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Mugiliformes
Family:	Ambassidae
Genus:	Chanda ; Hamilton, 1822
Synonyms
	Bogoda Bleeker, 1853; HamiltoniaSwainson, 1839;

Last updated July 17, 2025

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

The Catalog of Fishes lists 13 species:^[3]

Chanda alleni (Datta & Chaudhuri, 1993)
Chanda baculis Hamilton, 1822 (Himalayan glassy perchlet)
Chanda bistigmata (Geetakumari, 2012)
Chanda nama Hamilton, 1822 (Elongate glassy perchlet)
Chanda notata (Blyth, 1860)
Chanda pulcinella (Kottelat, 2003) (Humphead glassy perchlet)
Chanda ranga Hamilton, 1822 (Indian glassy perchlet)
Chanda robertsi (Datta & Chaudhuri, 1993)
Chanda serrata (Dishma & Vishwanath, 2015)^[4]
Chanda siamensis Fowler, 1937 (Indochinese glassy perchlet)
Chanda tenasserimensis (Roberts, 1995)
Chanda vollmeri (Roberts, 1995)
Chanda waikhomi (Geetakumari & Basudha, 2012)^[5]

Synonyms

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

References

↑ 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.
↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Chanda". FishBase . March 2025 version.
↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Chanda". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 31 March 2025.
↑ Mayanglambam, D.; Vishwanath, W. (2015). "Parambassis serrata, a new species of glassperch (Teleostei: Ambassidae) from the Kaladan drainage, India". Zootaxa. 4040 (5): 583–588. PMID 26624693.
↑ 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.

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[ETYFish-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] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Chanda". FishBase . March 2025 version.

[3] Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Chanda". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 31 March 2025.

[Dishma2015-4] Mayanglambam, D.; Vishwanath, W. (2015). "Parambassis serrata, a new species of glassperch (Teleostei: Ambassidae) from the Kaladan drainage, India". Zootaxa. 4040 (5): 583–588. PMID 26624693.

[Geetakumari2012-5] 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.

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