What is the largest fish in the world? Detailed answer

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What is the largest fish in the world?

Compared with animals that now exist or have ever lived on earth, man is relatively small. Let's talk about the largest animals on the planet. After the blue whale, the largest living creatures are the whale shark and the basking shark. They belong to the fish and are the largest representatives of this class known to man: they can reach a length of fifteen to eighteen meters!

Some people believe that all sharks are cannibals, and based on the size of the whale shark, they think that it is quite capable of swallowing a person whole. But she couldn't do that, even if she really wanted to. She has small teeth - only three millimeters long, and her throat - only ten centimeters in diameter. So this huge fish feeds on the smallest inhabitants of the ocean, such as sardines and small cephalopods.

Among the freshwater fish, the largest is considered arapaima, or piraruka, which lives in South America. This fish can reach four meters in length and weigh about two hundred kilograms. If sturgeon is considered freshwater fish on the grounds that sturgeon spends a lot of time in freshwater, it will be the largest freshwater fish. There were sturgeons about eight meters long and weighing about 1460 kilograms.

And what is the smallest fish? The one that is found in the Philippine Islands. It is called the pygmy pandak and is no more than six millimeters long! These are probably the smallest vertebrates.

Author: Likum A.

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