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Dunkleosteus
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Dunkleosteus

Scientific Name

Dunkleosteus terreli

Location

Temperate Ocean

Real Life Location

Extinct (North America)

Tackle Size

XL

Fighting Strength

★★★★★ (Trolling)

Largest Size

25.45 ft

Base Fish Points

18,000

Dunkleosteus is the largest fish in the game and is caught by trolling in the Temperate Ocean. It‘s a huge prehistoric fish with dark body and an armored head. This fish is so rare that only a few lucky players have ever seen it, let alone catch it.

Location

Techniques

For lures, the purple lure (#2) seems to work best, but the orange (#1) and the white (#5) may attract the fish too.

The Dunkleosteus is most common along the southwestern coast of Sembilan Island, but may also be found anywhere on the route by the Tidur River area. Start trolling west from Sembilan, make sure the Cruiser is facing south. Remember that this fish is extremely rare; it may take several attempts to capture.

When this fish finally takes your lure, it looks like a huge, dark shadow in the water with a large water ball at the surface.

Trivia

  • Do not enter the password for the Sailfish. Doing so only results in your chance to catch Dunkleosteus become even lower because you are just added other pest besides Oilfish and Giant Squids that will steal your lures.
  • Bothriolepis, Dunkleosteus, and Rolfosteus canningensis are placoderms, a class of extinct fish that posses a "plate-armor" on their head. However, Bothriolepis is an antiarch placoderm that was a bottom-feeder, while the other two are predatory arthrodiras.
    • The Dunkleosteus, specifically D. terelli, also happen to be the one of the largest placoderm in the world. They were the apex predator that stricken fear on many aquatic creatures during the Devon period.
    • Although Pteraspis also posses a "helmet", it is not a placoderm. It is belong to the Pteraspidomorphs, a group of armored jawless fish.
  • The in-game model for this fish posseses rays at its fins, which is incorrect because placoderms do not have any such fins.
    • They are also smaller in the game. Paleontologists believe real-life Dunkleosteus used to grow over 30 ft from researach.
  • The Dunkleosteus may are the most famous placoderm in pop culture, mainly because of their gigantic size and impressive jaws, which is stronger than the modern crocodile
  • It is the largest fish in the game that can actually be caught. (Whale shark can't be caught.)

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