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Blue Marlin
Makaira nigricans
A spear-nosed apex predator of the open Atlantic, one of the most coveted big-game fish in the world.
Looking for 10-letter fish? Here are 10 fish that fit — each linked to a full profile.
Letters are counted across the whole name with spaces, hyphens, apostrophes, and diacritics excluded. "Apple Pie" is 8 letters; "Boeuf Bourguignon" is 16.
List of 10-letter Fish
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Brook Trout
Salvelinus fontinalis
A jewel-toned char native to eastern North American mountain streams, intolerant of warmth or pollution.
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Brown Trout
Salmo trutta
A widely transplanted European salmonid that has become the wild trout of cold streams across six continents.
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Chum Salmon
Oncorhynchus keta
A widely distributed Pacific salmon with striking vertical bars at spawning, central to indigenous fisheries from Alaska to Japan.
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Coho Salmon
Oncorhynchus kisutch
An acrobatic, silver-flanked Pacific salmon prized by sport anglers for its hard fights and surface strikes.
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Common Carp
Cyprinus carpio
A hardy, widely introduced Eurasian cyprinid, both prized food fish and notorious global invader.
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Parrotfish
Scarus spp.
A beak-toothed reef herbivore that grazes algae from corals, producing much of the white sand of tropical beaches.
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Pink Salmon
Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
The smallest and most abundant Pacific salmon, with a strict two-year life cycle and a humped spawning male.
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Red Snapper
Lutjanus campechanus
A crimson reef fish of the Gulf of Mexico and Western Atlantic, central to American sport and seafood fisheries.
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Whale Shark
Rhincodon typus
The largest fish in the sea, a gentle filter-feeding shark that roams the world's tropical oceans.
About 10-letter fish
That's our current list of fish with exactly 10 letters. Need a different length? Try the browse-by-length pills in the sidebar, or combine with a starting letter — for example, 10-letter fish that start with A.