Silver hatchet chela

Last updated

Silver hatchet chela
Perilampus atpar Mintern 151.jpg
Silver hatchet chela in Assam.jpg
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cypriniformes
Family: Danionidae
Subfamily: Danioninae
Genus: Chela
Species:
C. cachius
Binomial name
Chela cachius
(F. Hamilton, 1822) [2]
Synonyms
  • Cyprinus atparHamilton, 1822
  • Chela atpar(Hamilton, 1822)
  • Cyprinus cachiusHamilton, 1822
  • Leuciscus anastoma Swainson, 1839
  • Paradanio elegans Day, 1867
  • Perilampus macropodus Jerdon, 1849
  • Perilampus psilopteromus McClelland, 1839

The silver hatchet chela (Chela cachius) is a danionin fish in the family Danionidae. Endemic in South Asia, it is found in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Myanmar. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Dahanukar, N. (2010). "Chela cachius". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2010 e.T166498A6221930. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T166498A6221930.en . Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Chela cachius". FishBase .
  3. ↑ Knight, J.D.M. & Rema Devi, K. (2014): Chela macrolepis, a new species of cyprinid fish from southern India (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 25 (2): 159-166.


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.