List of longest fish explained

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

Rank	Animal	Scientific name	Maximum length (m)	Image	Habitat
1		Rhincodon typus	12.65 ^[1]
2		Cetorhinus maximus	12.27 ^[2]
3		Regalecus glesne	11^[3]
4		Regalecus russellii	8^[4]
5		Pristis pristis	7.5^[5]
6		Galeocerdo cuvier	7.4 ^[6]
7		Pristis zijsron	7.3 ^[7]
8		Somniosus microcephalus	7.3 ^[8]
9		Huso huso	7.2 ^[9]
10		Carcharodon carcharias	7.1 (disputed) ^[10] ^[11] ^[12]
11		Somniosus pacificus	7 ^[13]
12		Alopias vulpinus	6.5 ^[14]
13		Mitsukurina owstoni	6.2 ^[15]
14		Sphyrna mokarran	6.1 ^[16]
15		Acipenser transmontanus	6.1 ^[17]
16		Acipenser sturio	6 ^[18]

See also

• List of largest fish
• Largest organisms

References

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13. Wood, Gerald L. (1976). The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats. Guinness Superlatives. .
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. .
15. Parsons . Glenn R. . Ingram . G. Walter . Havard . Ralph . First record of the goblin shark Mitsukurina owstoni, Jordan (family Mitsukurinidae) in the Gulf of Mexico . Southeastern Naturalist . 2002 . 1 . 2 . 189–192 . 10.1656/1528-7092(2002)001[0189:FROTGS]2.0.CO;2. 86600875 .
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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.