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title: "Spotted Archerfish"
description: "Toxotes chatareus — Fish. Toxotes chatareus, sometimes known by the common names common archerfish, seven-spot archerfish or largescale archerfish, is a species of perciform fish in the archerfish genus Toxotes."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/spotted-archerfish
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Spotted Archerfish

> Toxotes chatareus — Fish. Toxotes chatareus, sometimes known by the common names common archerfish,  seven-spot archerfish or largescale archerfish, is a species of perciform fish in the archerfish genus Toxotes.

- Scientific name: *Toxotes chatareus*
- Category: `fish` (Fish)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Lakes & rivers)
- iNaturalist observations: 1529
- Wikidata: [Q1498045](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1498045)
- iNaturalist taxon: [202152](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/202152)

## Names

- en: Spotted Archerfish
- de: Gefleckter Schützenfisch
- fr: Poisson-archer commun

## Countries with the most observations

AU (844), TH (284), MY (56), SG (33), VN (18), IN (14), BN (11), ID (10), BD (7), KH (5), MM (3)

## Summary

Toxotes chatareus, sometimes known by the common names common archerfish,  seven-spot archerfish or largescale archerfish, is a species of perciform fish in the archerfish genus Toxotes.
They are usually no larger than 20 centimetres (7.9 in) but may grow up to 40 centimetres (16 in). Unlike most archerfish, T. chatareus are sooty rather than silvery in colour. They are omnivorous, feeding on insects, fish, and vegetative matter at the surface of the water. Breeding occurs in the wet season, and 20,000 to 150,000 eggs may be laid at one time.
T. chatareus are distributed throughout southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxotes_chatareus

## Photo

![Spotted Archerfish](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/spotted-archerfish/medium.jpg)

Photo: Richard Fuller · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/31045114

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/spotted-archerfish?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).