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Chitala ornata (Gray, 1831)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Osteoglossiformes
family
Notopteridae
genus
Chitala
species
Chitala ornata

Name

Synonyms
Chitara ornata (Gray, 1831)
Notopterus ocellifer Bleeker, 1865
Notopterus ornatus Gray, 1831
Homonyms
Chitala ornata (Gray, 1831)
Common names
Clown Featherback in English
Clown featherback fish in English
Clown knifefish in English
Ocellated Featherback in English
Pa Tong Krai in Lao
Peixe-faca-palhaço in Portuguese
Pesce coltello pagliaccio in Italian
Pla Krai in language.
Spotted knifefish in English
Sydøstasiatisk knivbladfisk in Danish
Trey Krai in Central Khmer
clown knifefish in English
clown knifefish in English
nožovec pestrý in Czech
Индийский глазчатый нож in Russian
ปลากราย in Thai
スポッテッド・ナイフフィッシュ in Japanese
七星飛刀 in Chinese
東洋刀 in Chinese
鎧甲弓背魚 in Chinese
飾妝鎧弓魚 in Chinese
Ocellated Featherback in English
Clown featherback fish in English
Clown knifefish in English
Pa Tong Krai in Lao
Pla Krai in Thai
Spotted knifefish in English
Trey Krai in Central Khmer

Bibliographic References

  1. Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905.
  2. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  3. 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). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  4. Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386.
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