Toxotes (genus)

Toxotes Temporal range: Eocene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Toxotes jaculatrix
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Carangiformes
Family:	Toxotidae
Genus:	Toxotes Cloquet, 1816
Species
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Toxotes is a genus of archerfish found in tropical Asia and northern Australasia. It contains a majority of species in the family, and was previously thought to be the only genus of archerfish until the genus Protoxotes was revived and split from this genus in 2022. ^[1]

Life restoration of the extinct Toxotes beauforti

The following species are placed in this genus: ^[2]

• † Toxotes beauforti Sanders, 1934 (fossil; Eocene of Sumatra, Indonesia) ^[3]
• Toxotes blythii Boulenger, 1892 - clouded archerfish, zebra archerfish
• Toxotes carpentariensis Castelnau, 1878
• Toxotes chatareus (Hamilton, 1822) - largescale archerfish, common archerfish
• Toxotes jaculatrix (Pallas, 1767) - banded archerfish
• Toxotes kimberleyensis Allen, 2004 - Kimberley archerfish, western archerfish
• Toxotes microlepis Günther, 1860 - smallscale archerfish
• Toxotes oligolepis Bleeker, 1876 - big scale archerfish
• Toxotes sundaicus Kottelat & Tan, 2018 ^[4]

References

1. Girard, M G; Davis, M P; Tan, H H; Wedd, D J; Chakrabarty, P; Ludt, W B; Summers, A P; Smith, W L (2022). "Phylogenetics of archerfishes (Toxotidae) and evolution of the toxotid shooting apparatus". Integrative Organismal Biology. 4 (1) obac013. doi:10.1093/iob/obac013. PMC   9259087 . PMID   35814192.
2. Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Toxotes". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 22 December 2025.
3. Allen, Gerald R. (1978). "A REVIEW OF THE ARCHERFISHES (FAMILY TOXOTIDAE)". Rec. West. Aust. Mus. 6 (4).
4. Maurice Kottelat; Tan Heok Hui (2018). "Three new species of archerfishes from the freshwaters of Southeast Asia (Teleostei: Toxotidae) and notes on Henri Mouhot's fish collections". Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters. IEF-952: 1–19. doi:10.23788/IEF-952.