Shanghai Ocean Aquarium
Shanghai Ocean Aquarium | |
Date opened | 2002[1] |
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Location | Shanghai, China |
Coordinates | 31°14′33″N 121°29′50″E / 31.242554°N 121.49717°ECoordinates: 31°14′33″N 121°29′50″E / 31.242554°N 121.49717°E |
Land area | 20,500 m2 (221,000 sq ft)[2] |
Number 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 |
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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 120-meter (390 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]
Animals
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- Archerfish
- Blue tang
- Chinese alligator
- Chinese Sturgeon
- Chinese giant salamander
- Chinese water dragon
- Cichlids
- Electric eel
- Freshwater sawfish
- Giant gourami
- Giant grouper
- Sand tiger shark
- Horseshoe crab
- Humboldt penguin
- Japanese giant spider crab
- Port Jackson shark
- Leafy sea dragon
- Lion fish
- Oranda goldfish
- Pirarucu
- Rainbowfish
- Seahorses
- South American lungfish
- Spotted eagle ray
- Spotted seal
- Tawny nurse shark
- Walking catfish
- Weedy sea dragon
- Moon jelly
- Dragon moray eel
- Zebra shark
Whitetip reef shark
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 "Shanghai Ocean Aquarium". advanced-aquariums.com. Advanced Aquarium Technologies. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
- 1 2 3 "Knowing SOA". sh-aquarium.com. Shanghai Ocean Aquarium. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
External links
- Media related to Shanghai Ocean Aquarium at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
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