Toxotidae

Fricke, Ronald, Allen, Gerald R., Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Hamel, Mélanie A., Laboute, Pierre, Mana, Ralph, Hui, Tan Heok & Uyeno, Daisuke, 2014, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of Madang District, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 820 new records, Zootaxa 3832 (1), pp. 1-247 : 97

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3832.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6129618

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scientific name

Toxotidae
status

 

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Toxotes jaculatrix (Pallas, 1767) —Banded archerfish

STATUS AT MADANG. First record from Madang as Toxotes jaculator by Parenti & Allen (1991: 318). CAS and WAM material.

DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. India east to Philippines and Solomon Islands, south to northern Australia and Vanuatu. Mainly found in brackish mangrove habitats, also entering the lower reaches of rivers and streams, 0– 2 m. Freshwater and transitional water.

Parenti, L. R. & Allen, G. R. (1991) Fishes of the Gogol River and other coastal habitats, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 1, 307 - 320.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Perciformes

Family

Toxotidae

Genus

Toxotes