List of longest fish

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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