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The archerfish (also known as spinner fish or archer fish) or Toxotidae are a monotypic family (although some include a second genus) of perciform tropical fish known for their unique predation technique of "shooting down" land-based insects and other small prey with jets of water spit from their specialized mouths.
The latticed butterfly fish was first formally described in an anonymous description which was appended to the biography of the British statesman and colonialist Sir Stamford Raffles, who was first president of the Zoological Society of London, written by his widow, Sophia Hull.
The butterflyfish are a group of conspicuous tropical marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae; the bannerfish and coralfish are also included in this group. The approximately 129 species in 12 genera [2] are found mostly on the reefs of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.
These butterfly fish have a viable tolerance to chelated and ionic copper medications, and thus can be kept in quarantine systems that employ these anti-parasitic techniques. These fish, like most butterfly fishes, are territorial and should be kept either singly, or in large systems and added together.
The wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri) is a scombrid fish found worldwide in tropical and subtropical seas. In Hawaii, the wahoo is known as ono. [4] The species is sometimes called hoo in the United States. [5] It is best known to sports, as its speed and high-quality makes it a prized and valued game fish.
Hemitaurichthys zoster is rare in the aquarium trade [1], but are very unique in that they are one of the only species of butterfly fish near-guaranteed to not consume corals or other sessile invertebrates, an iconic trait of their family of fishes. These butterfly fish have a viable tolerance to chelated and ionic copper medications, and thus ...
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B. kweichowensis is characteristically not too aggressive an aquarium fish, [4] but like the Bornean Gastromyzon species, it is territorial and may engage in skirmishes or "topping", where one fish will try to cover another fish. These clashes seldom result in damage, because one fish will eventually cease from engaging in the topping behavior. [3]