Colossal squid
The largest recorded specimen was captured in 2007 by a New Zealand fishing boat off Antarctica. It was initially estimated to measure in length and weigh . The squid was taken back to New Zealand for scientific study. A study on the specimen later showed its actual weight was , but it only measured in total length as a result of the tentacles' shrinking "post mortem".
List of largest fish
The largest living bony fish (superclass Osteichthyes, which includes both ray-finned and lobe-finned fish) is the widely distributed ocean sunfish ("Mola mola") and southern sunfish ("Mola alexandrini"), both being members of the order Tetraodontiformes. The record size ocean sunfish crashed into a boat off Bird Island, Australia in 1910 and measured from fin-to-fin, in length and weighed about . While the biggest "Mola alexandrini" was also coincidentally 2,300 kg in mass and 3.0 m in length, caught off in 1996 and misidentified as a "Mola mola".