WoRMS taxon details
Chanda nama Hamilton, 1822
277036 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:277036)
accepted
Species
Ambassis bogoda (Hamilton, 1822) · unaccepted
Ambassis indica McClelland & Griffith, 1842 · unaccepted
Ambassis nama (Hamilton, 1822) · unaccepted
Ambassis oblonga Cuvier, 1828 · unaccepted
Ambassis phula (Hamilton, 1822) · unaccepted
Bogoda nama (Hamilton, 1822) · unaccepted
Chanda bogoda Hamilton, 1822 · unaccepted
Chanda phula Hamilton, 1822 · unaccepted
Equula ovata Swainson, 1839 · unaccepted
Hamiltonia nama (Hamilton, 1822) · unaccepted
Hamiltonia ovata (Swainson, 1839) · unaccepted
Hamilton, F. (1822). An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches. <em>Edinburgh & London.</em> i-vii + 1-405, Pls. 1-39. [Often seen as Hamilton-Buchanan or Buchanan-Hamilton; in work as Hamilton [formerly Buchanan].]. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Chanda nama Hamilton, 1822. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=277036 on 2025-12-28
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Nomenclature
original description
Hamilton, F. (1822). An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches. <em>Edinburgh & London.</em> i-vii + 1-405, Pls. 1-39. [Often seen as Hamilton-Buchanan or Buchanan-Hamilton; in work as Hamilton [formerly Buchanan].]. [details]
original description (of Chanda bogoda Hamilton, 1822) Hamilton, F. (1822). An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches. <em>Edinburgh & London.</em> i-vii + 1-405, Pls. 1-39. [Often seen as Hamilton-Buchanan or Buchanan-Hamilton; in work as Hamilton [formerly Buchanan].].
page(s): 111, 371 [details]
original description (of Chanda phula Hamilton, 1822) Hamilton, F. (1822). An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches. <em>Edinburgh & London.</em> i-vii + 1-405, Pls. 1-39. [Often seen as Hamilton-Buchanan or Buchanan-Hamilton; in work as Hamilton [formerly Buchanan].].
page(s): 111, 371 [details]
original description (of Ambassis oblonga Cuvier, 1828) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1828). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome second. Livre Troisième. Des poissons de la famille des perches, ou des percoïdes. 2: i-xxi + 2 pp + 1-490, Pls. 9-40.
page(s): 185 [details]
original description (of Ambassis indica McClelland & Griffith, 1842) McClelland, J. (1842). On the fresh-water fishes collected by William Griffith, Esq., F. L. S. Madras Medical Service, during his travels under the orders of the Supreme Government of India, from 1835 to 1842. <em>Calcutta Journal of Natural History.</em> v. 2 (no. 8): 560-589, Pls. 6, 15, 18, 21. [Cover dated January, 1842, but data for material collected in 1842 is included. Authorship of new taxa apparently is McClelland alone except for one genus and one species listed as McClell. et Griff. on p. 573; the use of "id." is confusing.]. [details]
original description (of Chanda bogoda Hamilton, 1822) Hamilton, F. (1822). An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches. <em>Edinburgh & London.</em> i-vii + 1-405, Pls. 1-39. [Often seen as Hamilton-Buchanan or Buchanan-Hamilton; in work as Hamilton [formerly Buchanan].].
page(s): 111, 371 [details]
original description (of Chanda phula Hamilton, 1822) Hamilton, F. (1822). An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches. <em>Edinburgh & London.</em> i-vii + 1-405, Pls. 1-39. [Often seen as Hamilton-Buchanan or Buchanan-Hamilton; in work as Hamilton [formerly Buchanan].].
page(s): 111, 371 [details]
original description (of Ambassis oblonga Cuvier, 1828) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1828). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome second. Livre Troisième. Des poissons de la famille des perches, ou des percoïdes. 2: i-xxi + 2 pp + 1-490, Pls. 9-40.
page(s): 185 [details]
original description (of Ambassis indica McClelland & Griffith, 1842) McClelland, J. (1842). On the fresh-water fishes collected by William Griffith, Esq., F. L. S. Madras Medical Service, during his travels under the orders of the Supreme Government of India, from 1835 to 1842. <em>Calcutta Journal of Natural History.</em> v. 2 (no. 8): 560-589, Pls. 6, 15, 18, 21. [Cover dated January, 1842, but data for material collected in 1842 is included. Authorship of new taxa apparently is McClelland alone except for one genus and one species listed as McClell. et Griff. on p. 573; the use of "id." is confusing.]. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (125 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Ambassis nama (Hamilton, 1822))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Chanda bogoda Hamilton, 1822)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Ambassis bogoda (Hamilton, 1822))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Ambassis indica McClelland & Griffith, 1842)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Ambassis phula (Hamilton, 1822))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Chanda phula Hamilton, 1822)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Ambassis oblonga Cuvier, 1828)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Hamiltonia ovata (Swainson, 1839))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chanda nama)
To Fishbase (from synonym Ambassis indica McClelland & Griffith, 1842)
To Fishbase (from synonym Equula ovata Swainson, 1839)
To GenBank (143 nucleotides; 110 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Ambassis nama (Hamilton, 1822))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Chanda bogoda Hamilton, 1822)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Ambassis bogoda (Hamilton, 1822))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Ambassis indica McClelland & Griffith, 1842)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Ambassis phula (Hamilton, 1822))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Chanda phula Hamilton, 1822)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Ambassis oblonga Cuvier, 1828)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Hamiltonia ovata (Swainson, 1839))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chanda nama)
To Fishbase (from synonym Ambassis indica McClelland & Griffith, 1842)
To Fishbase (from synonym Equula ovata Swainson, 1839)
To GenBank (143 nucleotides; 110 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
