This list includes fish with reported maximum length more than 6 metres.

Rank Animal Scientific name Maximum length (m) Image Habitat
1Whale sharkRhincodon typus12.65 [1]
2Basking sharkCetorhinus maximus12.27 [2]
3Giant oarfishRegalecus glesne11[3]
4Russell's oarfishRegalecus russellii8[4]
5Largetooth sawfishPristis pristis7.5[5]
6Tiger sharkGaleocerdo cuvier7.4 [6]
7Longcomb sawfishPristis zijsron7.3 [7]
8Greenland sharkSomniosus microcephalus7.3 [8]
9Beluga sturgeonHuso huso7.2 [9]
10Great white sharkCarcharodon carcharias7.1 (disputed) [10] [11] [12]
11Pacific sleeper sharkSomniosus pacificus7 [13]
12Common thresher sharkAlopias vulpinus6.5 [14]
13Goblin sharkMitsukurina owstoni6.2 [15]
14Great hammerhead sharkSphyrna mokarran6.1 [16]
15White sturgeonAcipenser transmontanus6.1 [17]
16European sea sturgeonAcipenser sturio6 [18]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Wood, Gerald L. (1976). The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 978-0-900424-60-1.
  2. ↑ Wood, Gerald (1983). The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats. p. 256. ISBN 978-0-85112-235-9.
  3. ↑ Wood, Gerald L. (1976). The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 978-0-900424-60-1.
  4. ↑ "Regalecus russelii summary page". FishBase. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  5. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). "Pristis pristis" in FishBase. November 2017 version.
  6. ↑ Wood, Gerald L. (1976). The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 978-0-900424-60-1.
  7. ↑ Simpfendorfer, C. (2013). "Pristis zijsron". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2013: e.T39393A18620401. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T39393A18620401.en
  8. ↑ Wood, Gerald L. (1976). The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 978-0-900424-60-1.
  9. ↑ Wood, Gerald L. (1976). The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 978-0-900424-60-1.
  10. ↑ Christiansen, H. M.; Lin, V.; Tanaka, S.; Velikanov, A.; Mollet, H. F.; Wintner, S. P.; Fordham, S. V.; Fisk, A. T.; Hussey, N. E. (2014). "The Last Frontier:Great White Sharks". PLOS ONE. 9 (4): e94407. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094407. PMC 3989224. PMID 24740299.
  11. ↑ "Ep. 10. A Bathing Accident - Transcript". Shark Files.
  12. ↑ Wood, Gerald L. (1976). The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 978-0-900424-60-1.
  13. ↑ Wood, Gerald L. (1976). The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 978-0-900424-60-1.
  14. ↑ Compagno, L.J.V. (2002). Sharks of the World: An Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Shark Species Known to Date (Volume 2). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. pp. 86–88. ISBN 92-5-104543-7.
  15. ↑ Parsons, Glenn R.; Ingram, G. Walter; Havard, Ralph (2002). "First record of the goblin shark Mitsukurina owstoni, Jordan (family Mitsukurinidae) in the Gulf of Mexico". Southeastern Naturalist. 1 (2): 189–192. doi:10.1656/1528-7092(2002)001[0189:FROTGS]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 86600875.
  16. ↑ Bester, Cathleen. Biological Profiles: Great Hammerhead. Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department. Retrieved on October 18, 2008. Compagno, L.J.V. (1984). Sharks of the World: An Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Shark Species Known to Date. Rome: Food and Agricultural Organization. pp. 548–549. ISBN 92-5-101384-5.
  17. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Acipenser transmontanus" in FishBase. November 2012 version. Acipenser transmontanus (J. Richardson, 1836) FAO, Species Fact Sheet. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
  18. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2005). "Acipenser sturio" in FishBase. 10 2005 version.
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