Archerfish

genus of fishes

The archerfish (also known as spinner fish or archer fish) or Toxotidae are a family of percomorph tropical fish known for their unique predation technique of "shooting down" land-based insects and other small prey with jets of water spit from their specialized mouths. The family is small, consisting of ten species in two genera, Toxotes and Protoxotes. Most archerfish live in freshwater streams, ponds and wetlands, but two or three species are euryhaline, inhabiting both fresh and brackish water habitats such as estuaries and mangroves. They can be found from India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka,

species of fish

species of fish

species of fish

species of fish

species of fish

species of fish