| Sturgeons
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Eels
| Salmon-like
Fishes
| Pikes
| Carp-like Fishes | Characins | Catfishes | Perch-like Fishes | Gars | Bony Tongues | Skates/Rays | Others |
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O R L D R E C O R D S | OLDEST SPECIMEN |
Official and informal world records of freshwater fishes
Record age
last update: 11th February 2007, by Mr.
Heinz Machacek

| ENGLISH NAME | SCIENTIFIC NAME | RECORD AGE | |
| still valid | years | ||
| HERRING-LIKE FISHES | |||
| Amazon Pellona | Pellona castelnaeana | S/F: | |
| American Shad | Alosa sapidissima | S/F: | 22 |
| Yellowfin River Pellona | Pellona flavipinnis | S/F: | |
| Allis Shad | Alosa alosa | S/F: | 11 |
| Twaite Shad | Alosa fallax | S/F: | 25 |
| COD-LIKE FISHES | |||
| Burbot | Lota lota | S/F: | over 22 |
| BOWFINS | |||
| Bowfin | Amia calva | S/F: | 30 |
| LUNGFISHES | |||
| Marbled Lungfish | Protopterus aethiopicus | S/F: | over 30 |
| Australian Lungfish | Neoceratodus forsteri | S/F: | 100 |
| South American Lungfish | Lepidosiren paradoxa | S/F: | over 30 |
| Slender Lungfish | Protopterus dolloi | S/F: | over 30 |
| West African Lungfish | Protopterus annectens | S/F: | over 30 |
| SPINY EELS | |||
| Marbled Swamp Eel | Synbranchus marmoratus | S/F: | |
| PUFFERFISHES | |||
| Freshwater Puffer fish | Tetraodon mbu | S/F: | |
| KNIFEFISHES | |||
| Electric Eel | Electrophorus electricus | S/F: | |
| Longtail Knifefish | Sternopygus macrurus | S/F: | |
| ? | Rhamphichthys rostratus | S/F: | |
| ? | Apteronotus magdalenensis | S/F: | |
| SILVERSIDES | |||
| Pejerrey | Odontesthes bonariensis | S/F: | |