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Please visit the opening time table of Acquario di Livorno to the public.

Upon reservation, Acquario di Livorno is open all year round for schools and groups.

Zebra shark

Scientific name: Stegostoma fasciatum
Curiosity: named after the zebra livery that this animal has at birth.
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Leaf cutting ants

Scientific name: Atta cephalotes
Curiosity: one of the most social organism of the animal kingdom. Its colonies can reach hundreds of thousands of specimens, divided into "teams" each one with different tasks. It feeds on a fungus with which lives in symbiosis and which "farms" thanks to the leaves that it collects.
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Blacktip Shark

Scientific name: Carcharhinus melanopterus
Curiosity: lives in Tropical Seas, from Red Sea to IndoPacific Sea.
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Green Turtle

Scientific name: Chelonia mydas
Curiosity: two green turtles in Acquario di Livorno, "Ari" and "Cuba".
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Napoleon Fish

Scientific name: Cheilinus undulatus
Curiosity: named after the "bump" on the head that reminds Napoleon's hat.
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Clownfish

Scientific name: Amphiprion ocellaris
Curiosity: it is an example of how, in coral reefs, many species can develop mutually beneficial relationships (symbiosis).
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Corals

Scientific name:Scleractinia sp.
Curiosity: not plants, but animals.
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Moon Jelly

Scientific name:Aurelia aurita
Curiosity: shape of her umbrella; the presence, on the top of the same, of four circular structures (the gonads) which for a fou-leaf clover-shaped structures, from which comes the common name of species.
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Seahorse

Scientific name: Hippocampus reidi
Curiosity: in seahorses, it is the pregnant male that gives birth.
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Aquila di mare

Scientific name: Myliobatis aquila
Curiosity: The eagle is the name given because of body shape and swimming which reminds the flight of a bird of prey.
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Iguana

Scientific name: Iguana iguana
Curiosity: eats flowers and leaves, and relies on the branches where he spends much ofthe day.

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Spider tortoise

Scientific name: Pyxis arachnoides
Curiosity: it lives in Madagascar. It is easly recognized by the particular pattern on its carapace.
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Pesce Angelo Imperatore

Scientific name: Pomecanthus imperator
Curiosity: oval body, with marked muzzle and mouth. Two distinct liveries depending on the age. When young, it is totally blue with white circular lines near the tail; in adulthood, horizontal blue and yellow lines all over the body.
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Granchio di Halloween

Scietific name: Gecarcinus quadratus
Curiosity: he lives on the coasts and in the rainforests of Central America. He goes to the rock pools only when he has to reproduce. Favorite food: leaves and small plants found in forests.
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