DNA cracks a century-old mystery about New Zealand's only extinct freshwater fish
- Written by: Lachie Scarsbrook, DPhil Student, University of Oxford
The upokororo, or New Zealand grayling (_Prototroctes oxyrhynchus_)Te Papa CC BYNC-ND 4.0, Author providedIn 1923, Te Rangi Hīroa (Sir Peter Buck) documented the last confirmed capture of a special fish – the upokororo or New Zealand grayling.
More than two decades later, the upokororo received full governmental protection, but it was...
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