Frank Edward Clarke vintage fish illustration - Prototroctes oxyrhynchus - New Zealand Grayling
The New Zealand grayling (Prototroctes oxyrhynchus) is an extinct species of fish which was endemic to New Zealand. The New Zealand grayling, was known by the Māori people by many names including pokororo, paneroro, kanae-kura, however, the most common being Upokororo. The variety of names for the fish came from either other tribes or to describe the fish at different periods of its life cycle. Even though this fish is named grayling, it is not related to European or American graylings and lacks the large dorsal fin ‘typical’ graylings are characterised by, however, is closely related to the Australian grayling (Prototroctes maraena). The New Zealand grayling was an amphidromous species, migrating between freshwater and saltwater during different seasons as well as stages in their life cycle. The species was abundant during the 19th century, however, the population decreased during the early 1900s with the last known sighting of the fish in 1923. In 1951, some years after the last sighting, the species was given full legal protection by the Freshwater Fisheries Regulations, the only New Zealand native freshwater fish to be protected. In August 2018 the New Zealand Department of Conservation classified the New Zealand grayling as "Extinct" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System - Wikipedia
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