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1. (noun) smelt, common smelt, Retropinna retropinna, Stokell's smelt, Stokellia anisodon - slender small silvery endemic freshwater fish that move about in shoals and growing to about 165 mm long. Common smelt is found throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand, but Stokell's smelt is only found in the lower reaches of rivers in the Marlborough-Canterbury coast. Spawn in the reaches of rivers in summer and autum then dying. Lavae washed to sea, some returning with whitebait, others returning only as adults.
