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Giant: 4 m and more

The whale shark, basking shark, oarfish and giant manta. 49 fish.

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🇿🇦 South Africa and 4 moreWhale shark The largest living fish species, a gentle giant of tropical oceans.Shark · Open ocean · 1829

🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreAcadian redfish A deep-water rockfish native to the northwestern Atlantic Ocean.Shark · Deep sea · 1854

WorldBluntnose sixgill shark A large, primitive shark with six gill slits found in deep tropical and temperate waters worldwide.Shark · Open ocean · 1788

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Whale shark: User:Zac Wolf (original), en:User:Stefan (cropping), CC BY-SA 2.5, source
Acadian redfish: Steven G. Johnson, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Bluntnose sixgill shark: Operation Deep Scope 2005 Expedition: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration, Public domain, source

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