page_title: Archerfish
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Archerfish / Species
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Poisson-archer de Blyth ( Toxotes Blythii ) à l'Aquarium Dubuisson, à Liège. English: clouded archerfish or zebra archerfish ( Toxotes Blythii ) in Aquarium Dubuisson, in Liège.
context_page_description: The archerfish form a monotypic family, Toxotidae, of fish known for their habit of preying on land-based insects and other small animals by shooting them down with water droplets from their specialized mouths. The family is small, consisting of ten species in a single genus Toxotes. Most species live in fresh water rivers, streams and pools, but two or three are euryhaline, inhabiting both fresh and brackish water habitats such as estuaries and mangroves. They can be found from India and Sri Lanka, through Southeast Asia, to Northern Australia and Melanesia.
  Archerfish or spinnerfish bodies are deep and laterally compressed, with the dorsal fin, and the profile a straight line from dorsal fin to mouth. The mouth is protractile, and the lower jaw juts out. Sizes are fairly small, typically up to about 12–18 cm, but T. chatareus can reach 40 cm.
  Archerfish are popular for aquaria, but difficult to feed since they prefer live prey.
context_section_description: There are 10 valid species, all in the genus Toxotes:
  Toxotes blythii Boulenger, 1892 - clouded archerfish, zebra archerfish
  Toxotes chatareus (Hamilton, 1822) - largescale archerfish, common archerfish
  Toxotes jaculatrix (Pallas, 1767) - banded archerfish
  Toxotes kimberleyensis Allen, 2004 - Kimberley archerfish, western archerfish
  Toxotes lorentzi Weber, 1910 - primitive archerfish
  Toxotes mekongensis Kottelat & Tan, 2018
  Toxotes microlepis Günther, 1860 - smallscale archerfish
  Toxotes oligolepis Bleeker, 1876 - big scale archerfish
  Toxotes siamensis Kottelat & Tan, 2018
  Toxotes sundaicus Kottelat & Tan, 2018
caption: Toxotes blythii
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