Updated 26 Dec. 2024
PDF version (with illustrations and additional information)

Southern Smelts
Subfamily RETROPINNINAE Gill 1862

Retropinna Gill 1862 named for Argentina retropinna Richardson 1848, retro (L.), back; pinna (L.), fin (Gill attempted to avoid tautonomy by unnecessarily renaming type species R. richardsonii)

Retropinna retropinna (Richardson 1848) retro- (L.), back; pinna (L.), fin, referring to posterior insertion of dorsal fin, above anus

Retropinna semoni (Weber 1895) in honor of German zoologist and evolutionary biologist Richard Semon (1859–1918), who collected holotype

Retropinna tasmanica McCulloch 1920 –ica (L.), belonging to Tasmania, where it occurs in fresh, brackish and marine waters

Retropinna victoriae Stokell 1941 of Victoria, Australia, type locality

Stokellia Whitley 1955 –ia (L. suffix), belonging to: amateur ichthyologist Gerald Stokell (1890–1972), who collected and studied New Zealand’s freshwater fishes for over 40 years, and described S. anisodon in 1941

Stokellia anisodon (Stokell 1941) ánisos (Gr. ἄνισος), unequal; odon, Latinized and grammatically adjusted from the Greek nominative ὀδούς (odoús), tooth, referring to teeth on upper jaw restricted to anterior parts of mouth

Southern Graylings
Subfamily PROTOTROCTINAE Hubbs 1952

Prototroctes Günther 1864 prṓtos (Gr. πρῶτος), first or earliest form of; troctes, presumably from tructa (L.), a kind of trout, “in allusion to its Salmonoid affinities,” per Günther (1870)

Prototroctes maraena Günther 1864 Latinization of Maräne, German word for whitefish, having the “general habit” of a Coregonus

Prototroctes oxyrhynchus Günther 1870 sharp-snouted, from oxýs (Gr. ὀξύς), sharp, and rhýnchos (Gr. ῥύγχος), snout, referring to its pointed snout [extinct due to some combination of pollution, overfishing and the introduction of nonindigenous trouts; last verified record in the 1920s]