''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.

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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 {{Osmeriformes-stub