Big scale archerfish
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Toxotidae |
Genus: | Toxotes |
Species: | T. oligolepis
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Binomial name | |
Toxotes oligolepis Bleeker, 1876
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The big scale archerfish (Toxotes oligolepis) is a species of fish in the Toxotidae family. It is endemic to the Molucca Islands (Indonesia) and possibly the Philippines.[1] Almost nothing is known about this species and there is only a single confirmed specimen, which likely was collected from Bacan ("Batjan") Islands.[2] It was formerly reported from Western Australia (in which case the common name western archerfish was used), but this is a separate species, T. kimberleyensis.[3]
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Toxotes oligolepis" in FishBase. March 2015 version.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Allen, G.R. (2004). Toxotes kimberleyensis, a new species of archerfish (Pisces: Toxotidae) from fresh waters of Western Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56: 225–230.
- Wager, R. 1996. Toxotes oligolepis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 August 2007.