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photo credit:Largetooth Sawfish by fsamuels
Largetooth sawfish
- Longest record
- 700cm
- Scientific name
- Pristis microdon microdon
- Taxonomy
- Family:Pristidae
- Genus:Pristis
- Range
- Tropical to subtropical Indian Ocean and the Pacific
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Pacific sleeper shark
- Longest record
- 700cm or more
- Scientific name
- Somniosus pacificus
- Taxonomy
- Family:Somniosidae
- Genus:Somniosus
- Range
- North Pacific
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photo credit:Cápák a levegőben – Kolosszus nyomában by Lwp Kommunikáció
Great white shark
- Longest record
- 700cm or more
- Scientific name
- Carcharodon carcharias
- Taxonomy
- Family:Lamnidae
- Genus:Carcharodon
- Range
- Tropical to subarctic ocean
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photo credit:Megamouth shark2 by FLMNH Ichtyology
Megamouth shark
- Longest record
- 709cm
- Scientific name
- Megachasma pelagios
- Taxonomy
- Family:Megachasmidae
- Genus:Megachasma
- Range
- Tropical to subarctic ocean
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photo credit:expl9984 by NOAA Photo Library
Greenland shark
- Longest record
- 730cm
- Scientific name
- Somniosus microcephalus
- Taxonomy
- Family:Somniosidae
- Genus:Somniosus
- Range
- North Atlantic Ocean
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photo credit:Tiger Shark by Oregon State University
Tiger shark
- Longest record
- 740cm
- Scientific name
- Galeocerdo cuvier
- Taxonomy
- Family:Carcharhinidae
- Genus:Galeocerdo
- Range
- Tropical to subarctic ocean
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photo credit:Monster Shark Tournament 2014 by Dennis Heller
Common thresher
- Longest record
- 760cm
- Scientific name
- Alopias vulpinus
- Taxonomy
- Family:Alopiidae
- Genus:Alopias
- Range
- Tropical to subarctic ocean
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Oarfish
- Longest record
- 1100cm
- Scientific name
- Regalecus glesne
- Taxonomy
- Family:Regalecidae
- Genus:Regalecus
- Range
- Deep sea all over the world
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Basking shark
- Longest record
- 1227cm
- Scientific name
- Cetorhinus maximus
- Taxonomy
- Family:Cetorhinidae
- Genus:Cetorhinus
- Range
- Temperate to subarctic sea
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Whale Shark
- Longest record
- 1370cm
- Scientific name
- Rhincodon typus
- Taxonomy
- Family:Rhincodontidae
- Genus:Rhincodon
- Range
- Tropical to temperate ocean
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Manta ray
- Maximum width
- 800cm
- Scientific name
- Manta birostris
- Taxonomy
- Family:Myliobatidae
- Genus:Manta
- Range
- Tropical ocean