- Animals
- ›Chordates
- ›Vertebrates
- ›Ray-finned Fishes
- ›Spiny-rayed fishes
- ›Mullets and Glassfishes
- ›Asian Glassfishes

Chanda
The elongate glassy perchlet (Chanda nama) is a species of freshwater fish in the Asiatic glassfish family Ambassidae, the only species in the genus Chanda. It is native to an area of south Asia from Pakistan to Burma, in the Indomalayan realm.
The elongate glassy perchlet reaches a maximum total length of 11 centimetres (4.3 in).
13 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 13 known species

Siamese Glassfish
speciesChanda siamensis

Siamese glassfish
speciesChanda ranga

Elongate Glassy Perchlet
speciesChanda nama

Chanda baculis
speciesChanda baculis

Humphead Glassfish
speciesChanda pulcinella
Chanda alleni
speciesChanda alleni
Chanda bistigmata
speciesChanda bistigmata
Chanda notata
speciesChanda notata
Chanda robertsi
speciesChanda robertsi
Chanda serrata
speciesChanda serrata
Chanda tenasserimensis
speciesChanda tenasserimensis
Chanda vollmeri
speciesChanda vollmeri
Chanda waikhomi
speciesChanda waikhomi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Chanda in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 87356.