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🇺🇸 United StatesMooneye
A family of large-eyed North American fish known for their metallic eye shine.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1819
WorldMegalodon
Extinct giant mackerel shark from the Miocene to Pliocene epochs.Shark · Coasts and shelves · 1843
🇺🇸 United StatesCladoselache
Extinct Late Devonian shark-like fish known for well-preserved fossils and streamlined body.Shark · Coasts and shelves
🇧🇷 Brazil and 4 moreMawsonia
Extinct giant coelacanth from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1907
🇺🇸 United States and 3 moreStethacanthus
Extinct Devonian-Carboniferous shark with a distinctive anvil-shaped dorsal fin.Shark · Coasts and shelves · 1874
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreKnightia
Extinct herring-like fish from the Green River Formation, famous for its abundant fossils.Herring · Rivers and lakes · 1856
WorldHaplochromis
A large ray-finned fish genus from East Africa known for rapid evolution and aquarium popularity.Cichlid · Rivers and lakes · 1888
🇺🇸 United StatesDelta smelt
A tiny, endangered fish native to California's Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.Other · Rivers and lakes · 1963
🇺🇸 United StatesTecopa pupfish
Extinct subspecies of killifish from California hot springs.Livebearer · Rivers and lakes · 1948
🇿🇦 South Africa and 1 moreCoelacanth
Ancient lobe-finned fish thought extinct until rediscovered in the twentieth century.Ancient · Coasts and shelves · 1839
🇺🇸 United States and 2 morePupfish
Small killifish known for surviving in extreme isolated waters.Livebearer · Rivers and lakes
🇵🇪 Peru and 1 moreTiticaca orestias
Largest killifish of Lake Titicaca, likely extinct.Livebearer · Rivers and lakes
WorldCretoxyrhina
Extinct Cretaceous mackerel shark known as the Ginsu sharkShark · Open ocean · 1822
🇨🇳 ChinaChinese paddlefish
A giant freshwater predator from China that is now extinct.Ancient · Rivers and lakes · 1862
🇧🇴 Bolivia and 3 moreSacabambaspis
Extinct armored jawless fish from the Ordovician period of Gondwana.Ancient · Coasts and shelves · 1986
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 4 moreLeedsichthys
Extinct Jurassic giant filter-feeding fish, the largest known bony fish.Ancient · Open ocean · 1889
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Mooneye: Kevmin, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Megalodon: Géry PARENT, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cladoselache: James St. John, CC BY 2.0, source
- Mawsonia: Ghedoghedo, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Stethacanthus: Dmitry Bogdanov, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Knightia: Wilson44691, CC0, source
- Haplochromis: User:Haplochromis, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Delta smelt: Peterson, B. Moose / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Public domain, source
- Coelacanth: Alberto Fernandez Fernandez, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pupfish: P.V. Loiselle, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cretoxyrhina: Creator:Dmitry Bogdanov, CC BY 3.0, source
- Chinese paddlefish: Muséum d'histoire Naturelle, Public domain, source
- Sacabambaspis: Bloopityboop, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Leedsichthys: Dmitry Bogdanov, CC BY 3.0, source