Prototroctes modestus

{{Short description|Extinct species of fish}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Early Miocene}}

| extinct = yes

| taxon = Prototroctes modestus

| authority = Schwarzhans et al., 2012

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Prototroctes modestus is an extinct species of bony fish in the family Retropinnidae. 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.{{Cite journal|author1=Werner Schwarzhans |author2=R. Paul Scofield |author3=Alan J. D. Tennyson |author4=Jennifer P. Worthy |author5=Trevor H. Worthy |year=2012 |title=Fish remains, mostly otoliths, from the non-marine early Miocene of Otago, New Zealand |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=319–350 |url=http://app.pan.pl/article/item/app20100127.html |doi=10.4202/app.2010.0127 |doi-access=free |hdl=2440/75818 |hdl-access=free }}