''Prototroctes modestus'' is an extinct species of
bony fish
Osteichthyes (), popularly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse superclass of fish that have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue. They can be contrasted with the Chondrichthyes, which have skeletons primarily composed of cartilag ...
in the genus ''
Prototroctes
''Prototroctes'' is a genus of New Zealand smelts containing one species native to Australia and another, now extinct, species that was native to New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific ...
''. It existed in what is now
New Zealand in the early
Miocene epoch. It was described by Werner Schwarzhans, R. Paul Scofield, Alan J. D. Tennyson, Jennifer P. Worthy and Trevor H. Worthy in 2012.
References
modestus
Modestus was a Roman cognomen. It may refer to:
* Julius Modestus (1st century BC), Roman freedman and grammarian
* Marcus Mettius Modestus (procurator) (1st century AD), Roman governor of Egypt
* Aufidius Modestus (1st century AD), Roman philo ...
Miocene fish
Fish described in 2012
Fossil taxa described in 2012
Prehistoric vertebrates of Oceania
Fish of New Zealand
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