Images attached to GBIF records (field photographs), from . Open licences; click for the record.
Clown knifefish
Chitala ornata (Gray, 1831)
Also calledClown-Federmesserfisch (deu) · Clownmesvis (nld) · Pa Tong Krai (lao) · Peixe-faca-palhaço (por) · Pesce coltello pagliaccio (ita) · Pfauenaugen-Messerfisch (deu) · Sydøstasiatisk knivbladfisk (dan) · Tausenddollarfisch (deu) · Trey Krai (khm) · nožovec pestrý (ces) · Индийский глазчатый нож (rus) · ปลากราย (tha) · スポッテッド・ナイフフィッシュ (jpn) · 七星飛刀 (zho)
This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Chitala ornata in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2402260.