Definition of Genus toxotes

1. Noun. Type genus of the Toxotidae.

Exact synonyms: Toxotes
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Toxotidae, Toxotidae
Member holonyms: Archerfish, Toxotes Jaculatrix

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Toxotes

genus Tipuana
genus Titanosaurus
genus Tithonia
genus Todea
genus Todus
genus Tofieldia
genus Tolmiea
genus Tolypeutes
genus Tomistoma
genus Toona
genus Torreya
genus Tortrix
genus Townsendia
genus Toxicodendron
genus Toxostoma
genus Toxotes
genus Trachinotus
genus Trachipterus
genus Trachodon
genus Trachurus
genus Tradescantia
genus Tragelaphus
genus Tragopan
genus Tragopogon
genus Tragulus
genus Trapa
genus Trautvetteria
genus Trema
genus Tremella

Literary usage of Genus toxotes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"... middle Eocene of Italy, among these being the Indian and Australian genus Toxotes. An extinct genus has been recorded from the Cretaceous of Westphalia. ..."

2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"The fish on which the genus TOXOTES has been established, merits this name (Archer) from the peculiar instinctive ingenuity which it exhibits. ..."

3. The Natural History of Secession by Thomas Shepard Goodwin (1865)
"The genus toxotes contains the Archer, T. jaculator, Cuv., of Java, celebrated for the same faculty which distinguishes C. rostratus, ..."

4. Natural History: A Manual of Zoology for Schools, Colleges, and the General by Sanborn Tenney (1872)
"The genus toxotes contains the Archer, T. jaculator, Cuv., of Java, celebrated for the same faculty which distinguishes C. rostratus, ..."

5. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1881)
"11. Silvery with five or six brown parallel, longitudinal bands. Port Jackson. Swan River. Genus TOXOTES, Cuv. ..."

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