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  Others - Toxotidae
The Toxotidae or Archerfish family is made up of a single genus and six species.
Archerfishinhabit brackish water along the coast of Australia and Asia.Archerfish are known for their habit of shootingdown prey with a stream of water.
Therefore some information such as scientific names may be out of date.
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  Toxotes jaculatrix
Others - Toxotidae: Archerfish [Pictures] Toxotes jaculatrix SYN: Labrus jaculatrix, Sciaena jaculatrix, Toxotes jaculator PD: The Archerfish is moderately elongated and laterally...
Archerfishes (Toxotidae) - MavicaNET: Archer fish (Toxotes jaculatrix) - English URL: http://www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/Fishindx/archerf.htm.
Toxotidae Ampujakalat Toxotes chatareus Täpläampujakala Kulta Toxotes jaculatrix Ampujakala Valio 6.
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 MavicaNET - Archerfishes (Toxotidae)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Catálogo / Natureza / Reino vegetal e animal / Animais (Animalia) / Peixes (Pisces) / Ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) / Perciformes / Archerfishes (Toxotidae)
This file contains a systematic overview of Toxotidae, featuring links to books, other pages on the web about Toxotidae, pictures etc. Common names in different languages may be also available as well as a short dutch description to the taxon.
The Seven-spot (or Common) Archerfish feeds primarily on swimming and floating insects.
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 TELEOSTOMES - LoveToKnow Article on TELEOSTOMES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A duct has been observed to be sometimes present between the air-bladder and the digestive tract.
The Percidae, Centrarchidae, Toxotidae, Nandidae, Osphromenidae, Embiotocidae, and Cichlidae are fresh-water fishes, the others are all or nearly all marine.
Aipichthys, which is included among the Scorpididae, is one of the few Acanthopterygian types known to have existed as early as the Cretaceous period.
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 Amazon.com: Toxotidae   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
aquarists-such as the Gasterosteidae (sticklebacks), Toxotidae (archers), and Scatophagidae (scats).
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 Archerfish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The archerfishes (also seen as archer fish) are a family (Toxotidae) of fish notable for their habit of preying on insects and other animals by shooting them down with squirts of water from the mouth.
The family is a small one, consisting of six species in the genus Toxotes; all occur in fresh and marine waters from India to Philippines, Australia, and Polynesia.
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 Seven-spot Archerfish, Toxotes chatareus
This species feeds primarily on swimming and floating insects.
The archerfishes (family Toxotidae) are well known for their ability to shoot down resting insects by spitting a jet of water.
The Seven-spot Archerfish can spit accurately to a distance of about 1.5 m.
www.austmus.gov.au /fishes/fishfacts/fish/tchatar.htm   (327 words)

  
 Toxotidae - HighBeam Encyclopedia
Toxotidae (archerfish; subclass Actinopterygii, order Perciformes) A small family of marine and freshwater fish that have a deep, oval body, the dorsal and large anal fins being situated well to the back of the fish.
Toxotes chatareus (archerfish), 24 cm, is capable of squirting a jet of water from its mouth and ‘shooting down’ insects from a height of up to 1.5 m above the water surface.
More information is at your fingertips at HighBeam Research:
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 Seven-spot Archerfish, Toxotes chatareus
This species feeds primarily on swimming and floating insects.
The archerfishes (family Toxotidae) are well known for their ability to shoot down resting insects by spitting a jet of water.
The Seven-spot Archerfish can spit accurately to a distance of about 1.5 m.
www.amonline.net.au /fishes/fishfacts/fish/tchatar.htm   (327 words)

  
 Others - Toxotidae
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The Toxotidae or Archerfish family is made up of a single genus and six species.
Archerfishinhabit brackish water along the coast of Australia and Asia.Archerfish are known for their habit of shootingdown prey with a stream of water.
www.mongabay.com /fish/toxotidae.htm   (629 words)

  
 Toxotidae - Dictionnaire Français-Anglais WordReference.com
We found no English translation for 'Toxotidae' in our French to English Dictionary.
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 Reef Central Online Community - What seagrass for mid-range brackish conditions?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
My archers actually spend most of their time in 1.012, sometimes up to full marine certain times of the year.
I do that because T. jaculatrix is the only species from the Toxotidae family that spends time in full marine conditions.
It's believed that they swam across the ocean (probably in search of food) to get to the Solomon Islands, which would require them to spend at least a short period of time in full marine conditions.
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