The 5 longest fishes in the world

Blue whale, oar fish (oarfish fish), whale shark . is one of the world's longest fish.

1. Blue whale

Blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. According to a recent study, they are also identified as the longest-bodied species among the ocean whales. The longest blue whale grows to 33m and weighs nearly 200 tons.

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This is the world's largest animal, the longest fish growing to 33m.

The body of the blue whale is long and slender, may be bluish-gray in the dorsal surface and brighter in the abdomen. There are at least 3 subspecies of blue whales, they are distributed throughout the world. Like other whales, their food is mainly plankton and small crustaceans.

2. sperm whale

Sperm whale is the largest fish in the toothed whale subfamily. They are one of three surviving species of sperm whale and small sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) and dwarf whale (Kogia sima).

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Mature sperm whales can be up to 24m long.

An adult male sperm whale can be up to 24m long. They are the largest toothed animals in the world. For males, the head can be as long as a third of the total length of the body - in the beginning, the sperm whale is the largest brain animal in the world.

The sperm whales mostly eat squid - even giant squid species and giant Antarctic squid are also victims of it - but sometimes they also eat fish and can dive as deep as 3000m making it an animal. The world's deepest dive mammal.

3. Whale shark

Whale shark (whale shark) is a shark that consumes plankton. The length of each known record of this species is 18.8m.

They are a special member in the subspecies of Elasmobranchii (sharks, rays) of the cartilage class (Chondrichthyes). It is the largest shark and is also one of the largest surviving sized fish species.

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The length of the record ever known for this fish is 18.8m .

Whale shark live in oceans in the tropical and warm temperate regions of the world. Considered to live outside the ocean, they also gather seasonally in some coastal areas such as the Ningaloo reef in western Australia as well as Pemba and Zanzibar in the East Coast ocean area.

4. Paddle fish (Oarfish)

The giant oarfish (also known as paddle fish , Regalecus glesne) was first mentioned in 1772, but rarely shows up because they live deep in the ocean - at a depth of 1,000 meters.

Oarfish giant fish is the oldest living species known in bone fish, up to 17m long and can weigh up to 270kg.

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This fish has a body length of up to 17m.

Suspended females have ribbon-like appearance, relatively thin horizontal body and dorsal fin running along the entire body length. Because of its great length and special red fin, many people call this species a giant sea snake, or sea dragon.

They do not have fins, but wearing a silver shirt containing guanine - a substance that is abundant in the fins of some fish.

5. Sunfish shark

Sunfish shark (scientific name Cetorhinus maximus) is one of the sharks that eat plankton in the ocean. They have a body length of nearly 12.5m.

Sunfish shark is the second largest fish to survive, after whale sharks, and the second of the three plankton-eating sharks, with whale shark and big mouth shark.

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Exposed shark has a length of 12.5m.

Sunfish shark is usually gray-brown with skin spots. The sunfish shark's teeth are very small and very numerous, usually over a hundred rows. The tooth has a single cone peak, which is bent backwards and is the same in both the upper and lower jaws.