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pokororo

1. (noun) New Zealand grayling, Prototroctes oxyrhynchus - a small slender fish, silvery, sometimes with a reddish back. Was caught in large numbers and found only in lowland rivers and streams. They spawned in freshwater streams and developing to maturity in saltwater. Their length was between 20 and 40 cm. Although once common in Aotearoa/New Zealand streams, it is now extinct, possibly because of the introduction of trout.

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