Retropinnidae

Taxobox
name = Retropinnidae


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image_caption = New Zealand smelt, "Retropinna retropinna"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Osmeriformes
familia = Retropinnidae
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = See text for genera and species.

Retropinnidae is a family of bony fish that contains the southern hemisphere smelts and graylings. They are quite closely related to the northern smelts (Osmeridae), but not to the northern graylings ("Thymallus"). Species from this family are only found in southeastern Australia and New Zealand.

Genera and species

* Genus "Prototroctes"
** Australian grayling, "Prototroctes maraena" Günther, 1864.
** New Zealand grayling, "Prototroctes oxyrhynchus" Günther, 1870.
* Genus "Retropinna"
** New Zealand smelt, "Retropinna retropinna" (Richardson, 1848).
** Australian smelt, "Retropinna semoni" (Weber, 1895).
** Tasmanian smelt, "Retropinna tasmanica" McCulloch, 1920.
* Genus "Stokellia"
** Stokell's smelt, "Stokellia anisodon" (Stokell, 1941).

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