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Great white shark
Apex lamnid whose warm muscle, broad diet and 1975 cinema still outrun the tagging papers.
Overall 66 🐟Salmon
Anadromous fishes that move ocean fat onto spawning gravels -- and into forests, treaties and hydropower fights.
Overall 63 🐟Atlantic bluefin tuna
A warm-bodied tuna whose Tokyo auction prices and ICCAT quotas made a single fish into a geopolitical unit.
Overall 54 🎏Koi
Domesticated carp whose Niigata colour mutations became a global pond aesthetic -- not a wild goldfish substitute.
Overall 42 🐠Clownfish
Anemone-dwelling damselfish whose 2003 film fame became a capture-and-reef case study.
Overall 41 🐡Pufferfish
Beak-toothed inflators whose tetrodotoxin made a Japanese cuisine and a genome project out of one family.
Overall 41 ⚡Electric eel
Amazon knifefishes whose stacked electrocytes taught Humboldt, Volta arguments and a 2019 species split.
Overall 36 🐴Seahorse
Upright syngnathids whose male pregnancy and dried-medicine trade made a small fish a CITES case.
Overall 28