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.

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