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    • Toxotes chatareus

Ngaladarra

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Nomenclature

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Language Names

Language                                     Name

Kriol:                                              Ngaladarra

Marra:                                           Ngaladarra

Ritharrŋu/Wägilak:                     Djitbiḏi   

Ngandi:                                        Gu-ngatbanh

Wubuy:                                         Wildhug 

Ngalakgan:                                  Ngalardarra / Ngatban / Jetberde

Alawa:                                          Ngaladarra  

Rembarrga:                                Jetberdeh 

 

Group name for Fish

Language                                     Name

Kriol:                                             Fish

Marra:                                          Warlanyan

Ritharrŋu/Wägilak:                    Guya

Ngandi:                                        A-jeny

Wubuy:                                        Ngujija

Ngalakgan:                                 Jeny

Alawa:                                         Aga / Barlgurr

Rembarrnga:                              Jeny

 

English:                                       Fish

 

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Where It Lives (habitat)

It is commonly found in freshwater, estuarine and brackish mangrove waters.

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What It Eats (diet)

Archer fish can shoot a jet of water up to 150cm above surface to knock out insects sitting on plants above water and preys on them.

They eat plants and aquatic insects.

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How Many Babies (breeding)

They begin to breed in wet season where there are rising levels of water in rivers and lakes.

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What It Looks Like

Body size: up to 40cm long

Its scales are in shiny silver with black spots on the body. Moderately laterally compressed.

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  • Kingdom: ANIMALIA
  • Phylum: CHORDATA
  • Subphylum: VERTEBRATA
  • Informal: GNATHOSTOMATA
  • Informal: PISCES
  • Class: ACTINOPTERYGII
  • Subdivision Zoology: EUTELEOSTEI
  • Superorder: ACANTHOPTERYGII
  • Order: PERCIFORMES
  • Suborder: PERCOIDEI
  • Family: TOXOTIDAE
  • Genus: Toxotes
  • Species: Toxotes chatareus

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