This list includes extant fish with reported maximum length more than 6 metres.
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| Rank
! Animal
! Scientific name
! Maximum length
! Image
! Habitat |
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| 1 | Whale shark | Rhincodon typus | {{Convert|18.8|m|ft|abbr=on}}
(see Whale shark)[{{Cite journal |last=Borrell |first=Asunción |last2=Aguilar |first2=Alex |last3=Gazo |first3=Manel |last4=Kumarran |first4=R. P. |last5=Cardona |first5=Luis |date=December 2011 |title=Stable isotope profiles in whale shark (Rhincodon typus) suggest segregation and dissimilarities in the diet depending on sex and size |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10641-011-9879-y |journal=Environmental Biology of Fishes |language=en |volume=92 |issue=4 |pages=559–567 |doi=10.1007/s10641-011-9879-y |issn=0378-1909}}]
|210 px | 200 px |
| 2 | Basking shark | Cetorhinus maximus | {{Convert|12.27|m|ft|abbr=on}} [Wood, Gerald (1983). The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats. p. 256. {{ISBN|978-0-85112-235-9}}.] | 210 px | 200 px |
| 3 | Giant oarfish | Regalecus glesne | {{Convert|11|m|ft|abbr=on}}[Wood, Gerald L. (1976). The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats. Guinness Superlatives. {{ISBN|978-0-900424-60-1}}.] | 210 px | |
| 4 | Russell's oarfish | Regalecus russellii | {{Convert|8|m|ft|abbr=on}}[{{Cite web|url=https://www.fishbase.us/summary/Regalecus-russelii.html|title=Regalecus russelii summary page|website=FishBase|language=en|access-date=2019-03-28}}] | 210 px | |
| 5 | Largetooth sawfish | Pristis pristis | {{Convert|7.5|m|ft|abbr=on}}[Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). "Pristis pristis" in FishBase. November 2017 version.] | 210 px | |
| 6 | Tiger shark | Galeocerdo cuvier | {{Convert|7.4|m|ft|abbr=on}} [Wood, Gerald L. (1976). The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats. Guinness Superlatives. {{ISBN|978-0-900424-60-1}}.] | 210 px | 200 px |
| 7 | Longcomb sawfish | Pristis zijsron | {{Convert|7.3|m|ft|abbr=on}} [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}}] | 210 px | |
| 8 | Greenland shark | Somniosus microcephalus | {{Convert|7.3|m|ft|abbr=on}} [Wood, Gerald L. (1976). The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats. Guinness Superlatives. {{ISBN|978-0-900424-60-1}}.] | File:Somniosus microcephalus okeanos.jpg
| 200 px |
| 9 | Beluga sturgeon | Huso huso | {{Convert|7.2|m|ft|abbr=on}} [Wood, Gerald L. (1976). The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats. Guinness Superlatives. {{ISBN|978-0-900424-60-1}}.] | 210 px | File:Huso huso map.jpg |
| 10 | Great white shark | Carcharodon carcharias | {{Convert|7.1|m|ft|abbr=on}} (disputed) [{{Cite journal|title=The Last Frontier:Great White Sharks|year=2014 |pmc=3989224 |last1=Christiansen |first1=H. M. |last2=Lin |first2=V. |last3=Tanaka |first3=S. |last4=Velikanov |first4=A. |last5=Mollet |first5=H. F. |last6=Wintner |first6=S. P. |last7=Fordham |first7=S. V. |last8=Fisk |first8=A. T. |last9=Hussey |first9=N. E. |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=9 |issue=4 |pages=e94407 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0094407 |pmid=24740299 |doi-access=free }}] [{{Cite web|url=https://www.thesharkfiles.com/ep10-a-bathing-accident-transcript|title=Ep. 10. A Bathing Accident - Transcript|website=Shark Files}}] [Wood, Gerald L. (1976). The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats. Guinness Superlatives. {{ISBN|978-0-900424-60-1}}.] | 210 px | 200 px |
| 11 | Pacific sleeper shark | Somniosus pacificus | {{Convert|7|m|ft|abbr=on}} [Wood, Gerald L. (1976). The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats. Guinness Superlatives. {{ISBN|978-0-900424-60-1}}.] | 210 px | 200 px |
| 12 | Common thresher shark | Alopias vulpinus | {{Convert|6.5|m|ft|abbr=on}} [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}}.] | 210 px | 200 px |
| 13 | Goblin shark | Mitsukurina owstoni | {{Convert|6.2|m|ft|abbr=on}} [{{cite journal |last1=Parsons |first1=Glenn R. |last2=Ingram |first2=G. Walter |last3=Havard |first3=Ralph |title=First record of the goblin shark Mitsukurina owstoni, Jordan (family Mitsukurinidae) in the Gulf of Mexico |journal=Southeastern Naturalist |date=2002 |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=189–192 |doi=10.1656/1528-7092(2002)001[0189:FROTGS]2.0.CO;2|s2cid=86600875 }}] | 210 px | 200 px |
| 14 | Great hammerhead shark | Sphyrna mokarran | {{Convert|6.1|m|ft|abbr=on}} [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}}. | 210 px | 200 px |
| 15 | White sturgeon | Acipenser transmontanus | {{Convert|6.1|m|ft|abbr=on}} [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. | 210 px | |
| 16
|Bluntnose sixgill shark
|Hexanchus griseus
|{{Convert|6.1|m|ft|abbr=on}}[{{Cite journal |last=Kabasakal |first=Hakan |date=May 2009 |title=On the occurrence of the bluntnose sixgill shark, Hexanchus griseus (Chondrichthyes: Hexanchidae), in the Sea of Marmara |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/marine-biodiversity-records/article/abs/on-the-occurrence-of-the-bluntnose-sixgill-shark-hexanchus-griseus-chondrichthyes-hexanchidae-in-the-sea-of-marmara/50D416DA381363A3291B391F8CBA65E2 |journal=Marine Biodiversity Records |language=en |volume=2 |pages=e110 |doi=10.1017/S1755267209001018 |issn=1755-2672}}]
|frameless
|frameless |
| 17 | European sea sturgeon | Acipenser sturio | {{Convert|6|m|ft|abbr=on}} [Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2005). "Acipenser sturio" in FishBase. 10 2005 version.] | 210 px | |
