Shanghai Ocean Aquarium
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| Shanghai Ocean Aquarium | |
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 Shanghai Ocean Aquarium | |
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| 31°14′33″N 121°29′50″E / 31.242554°N 121.49717°E | |
| Date opened | 2002[1] |
| Location | Shanghai, China |
| Land area | 20,500 m2 (221,000 sq ft)[2] |
| No. of species | >450[2] |
| Volume of largest tank | 2,200 m3 (580,000 U.S. gal)[1] |
| Total volume of tanks | 4,900 m3 (1,300,000 U.S. gal)[1] |
| Annual visitors | one million[2] |
| Website | www |
The Shanghai Ocean Aquarium (Chinese: 上海海洋水族馆) is a public aquarium located in Shanghai, China.
Designed by Advanced Aquarium Technologies, the aquarium includes a 168-meter (551 ft) tunnel that takes visitors through a coastal reef, open ocean, a kelp cave, shark cove, and a coral reef, and is one of the longest such tunnels in the world.[1] The aquarium takes visitors through several exhibit "zones," including China Zone, South America Zone, Africa Zone, etc.[3]
Animals
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- Archerfish
- Blackback Butterflyfish
- Blue tang
- Chinese alligator
- Chinese Sturgeon
- Chinese giant salamander
- Chinese water dragon
- Cichlids
- Electric eel
- Freshwater sawfish
- Giant gourami
- Giant grouper
- Clown featherback
- Black ghost knife fish
- Sand tiger shark
- Blacktip reef shark
- Green sea turtle
- Horseshoe crab
- Humboldt penguin
- Cofish
- Humphead wrasse
- Japanese giant spider crab
- Port Jackson shark
- Leafy sea dragon
- Lion fish
- Moorish Idol
- Spot-fin porcupinefish
- Pirarucu
- Rainbowfish
- Seahorses
- South American lungfish
- Spotted eagle ray
- Cownose ray
- Shark ray
- Spotted seal
- Tawny nurse shark
- Walking catfish
- Weedy sea dragon
- Moon jelly
- Pacific Sea Nettles
- Egg-yolk Jellyfish
- Neon Jellyfish
- Dragon moray eel
- Pink whipray
- Razorfish
- Pipefish
- Orange-barred garden eel
- Porcupine Puffer
- Green spotted puffer fish
- Humpback Puffer
- Senegal Bichir
- Squarespot Anthias
- Flashlight fish
- Zebra shark
- Whitetip reef shark
- Sea anemone
See also
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[edit]- ^ a b c d "Shanghai Ocean Aquarium". advanced-aquariums.com. Advanced Aquarium Technologies. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
- ^ a b c "Knowing SOA". sh-aquarium.com. Shanghai Ocean Aquarium. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
- ^ "SOA WEB STATION". www.sh-aquarium.com. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
External links
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Media related to Shanghai Ocean Aquarium at Wikimedia Commons- Official website
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