Smallscale archerfish
| Smallscale archerfish | |
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| Illustration from Pieter Bleeker's Atlas Ichthyologique 1878 | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Carangiformes |
| Family: | Toxotidae |
| Genus: | Toxotes |
| Species: | T. microlepis
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| Binomial name | |
| Toxotes microlepis (Günther, 1860)
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The smallscale archerfish (Toxotes microlepis) is a perciform fish of genus Toxotes. As its name suggests, the scales of the smallscale archerfish are smaller than those of other archerfish. They reach a maximum length of 15 centimetres (5.9 in). Smallscale archerfish live in the tropical Indo-Pacific region and are potamodromous, moving between fresh and brackish water through their lifetimes.