User:WolfmanSF/List of marine megafauna

Megafauna are large animals (for definitions, see the Megafauna page). Extant and recently extinct (in the Pleistocene) megafauna living in the oceans are listed here.

Class Mammalia

Metaxytherium †

Harbor Seal1.85 meters (6.1 ft) and a mass of 132 kilograms (290 lbs)

The Cetaceans enhanced

Sea lions usually

Class Aves

Certain Sea Bird They have the largest wingspans of any bird; being up to 3.5 m (11 ft)

Class Saurospida

Saltwater Crocodile

Green Sea Turtle is Largest reptile marine at sea

Sea turtle

Class Actinopterygii

The Atlantic blue marlin is one of the largest species of the perch-like fish

The ocean sunfish is the largest of the bony fish

Class Chondrichthyes

Basking Shark
Blacktip Reef Shark
Bramble shark
Bull Shark
C. megalodon †
Common skate
Goblin Shark
Great White Shark
Greenland Shark
Hammerhead Sharks
- Bonnethead
- Golden Hammerhead
- Great Hammerhead Shark
- Scalloped Bonnethead
- Scalloped Hammerhead Shark
- Scoophead
- Smooth Hammerhead Shark
- Whitefin hammerhead
- Winghead Shark
- Plus a newly discovered hammerhead of the shores of South Carolina

Ant manta ray of here seen at Hin Daeng, Thailand, is the largest ray

Largest shark whale shark up to 13.6 m (45 ft) long and 22 tons (44,000 lb)

Class Arthropoda

In terms of overall size, the Japanese spider crab is the largest of all arthropods.

Japanese Spider crab

Class Cnidaria

Lion's Mane Jelly

Nomura's Jellyfish

Class Mollusca

Class Polychaeta

Giant tube worm

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