Prototroctes
Sign in to savePrototroctes is a genus of New Zealand smelts containing one species native to Australia and another, now extinct, species that was native to New Zealand.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderOsmeriformes
- FamilyRetropinnidae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
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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.
The two species in this genus appear to have diverged from one another during the Miocene, about 14 million years ago.
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Cretaceous
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Jurassic
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