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| Shanghai Ocean Aquarium | |
|---|---|
 Shanghai Ocean Aquarium | |
| 31°14′33″N 121°29′50″E / 31.242554°N 121.49717°E / 31.242554; 121.49717 | |
| Date opened | 2002 |
| Location | Shanghai, China |
| Land area | 20,500 m (221,000 sq ft) |
| No. of species | >450 |
| Volume of largest tank | 2,200 m (580,000 U.S. gal) |
| Total volume of tanks | 4,900 m (1,300,000 U.S. gal) |
| Annual visitors | one million |
| 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. The aquarium takes visitors through several exhibit "zones," including China Zone, South America Zone, Africa Zone, etc.
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
Notes
- ^ "Shanghai Ocean Aquarium". advanced-aquariums.com. Advanced Aquarium Technologies. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
- ^ "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
Media related to Shanghai Ocean Aquarium at Wikimedia Commons- Official website
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