nama, Chanda Hamilton [F.] 1822:109, 371, Pl. 39 (fig. 37) [An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges; ref. 2031] Ponds throughout Bengal, India. No types known. Placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology, name no. 2655. Hamilton's original illustration reproduced by Britz 2019:Pl. 62 [ref. 37532]. •Valid as Chanda nama Hamilton 1822 -- (Shrestha 1978:40 [ref. 15970], Ataur Rahman 1989:339 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:799 [ref. 20764], Singh & Yazdani 1993:200 [ref. 24022], Roberts 1995:265 [ref. 22559], Indra 1994:422 [ref. 24015], Sen 1995:584 [ref. 23778], Banik & Choudhury 1996:579 [ref. 24736], Rema Devi & Raghunathan 1999:157 [ref. 24759], Rema Devi et al. 1999:162 [ref. 24758], Sen 1999:202 [ref. 24750], Menon 1999:283 [ref. 24904], Rafique 2000:326 [ref. 25220], Karmakar 2000:34 [ref. 25662], Raju Thomas et al. 2002:51 [ref. 26359], Rafique et al. 2003:98 [ref. 27173] as Channa, Mirza 2003:23 [ref. 27265], Khan 2003:8 [ref. 27710], Yadav 2003:24 [ref. 27711], Ataur Rahman 2003:369 [ref. 31338], Shrestha 2008:214 [ref. 29923], Geetakumari 2012:59 [ref. 31985], Geetakumari & Basudha 2012:3227 [ref. 32279], Ahmed et al. 2013:286 [ref. 32872], Kottelat 2013:321 [ref. 32989], Arunkumar & Manimekalan 2018:1739 [ref. 36172], Suresh et al. 2018:180 [ref. 36495], Kosygin et al. 2022:674 [ref. 40736], Moazzam & Osmany 2022:535 [ref. 39926], Tudu et al. 2022:44 [ref. 40484], Gupta et al. 2024:101 [ref. 41453]). Current status: Valid as Chanda nama Hamilton 1822. Ambassidae. Distribution: South Asia: Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.