name given, in Melbourne, to the fish Clupea vittata, Castln., family Clupeidae, or Herrings (q.v.); in New Zealand and Tasmania, to Retropinna richardsonii, Gill, family Salmonidae.Its young are called Whitebait (q.v.). The DerwentSmelt is a Tasmanian fish, H aplochiton sealii,family Haplochitonidae, fishes with an adipose fin whichrepresent the salmonoids in the Southern Hemisphere; Prototroctes is the only other genus of the family known(see Grayling). Haplochiton is also found in the coldlatitudes of South America.