Updated 29 March 2024
PDF version (illustrated)

Chaca Gray 1831 tautonymous with Platystacus chaca Hamilton 1822, local Assamese name for this catfish in India (which Gray unnecessarily renamed C. hamiltoni in honor of Hamilton)

Chaca bankanensis Bleeker 1852 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Bangka, Indonesia, type locality

Chaca burmensis Brown & Ferraris 1988 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Burma (now Myanmar), where it is endemic

Chaca chaca (Hamilton 1822) local Assamese name for this catfish in India

Chaca serica Ng & Kottelat 2012 Latin for made of silk or silken, referring to smooth oral margin of lower lip compared with C. bankanensis, the congener it superficially resembles the most