ATTENTION 12.2.2021
STARTING FROM THE 14TH FEBRUARY TUSCANY REGION BECOMES ORANGE, IN ACCORDANCE TO DPCM THAT REGULATE THE REGION OF THIS COLOUR, ACQUARIO DI LIVORNO WILL BE CLOSED TO PUBLIC EVERY DAY UNTIL NEW COMUNICATION.
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Attention: limited number of daily entrance fees. Online purchase is recommended for guaranteed entry.
Scientific name: Stegostoma fasciatum
Curiosity: named after the zebra livery that this animal has at birth.
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.
Scientific name: Chelonia mydas
Curiosity: two green turtles in Acquario di Livorno, "Ari" and "Cuba".
Scientific name: Cheilinus undulatus
Curiosity: named after the "bump" on the head that reminds Napoleon's hat.
Scientific name: Amphiprion ocellaris
Curiosity: it is an example of how, in coral reefs, many species can develop mutually beneficial relationships (symbiosis).
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.
Scientific name: Hippocampus reidi
Curiosity: in seahorses, it is the pregnant male that gives birth.
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.
Scientific name: Pyxis arachnoides
Curiosity: it lives in Madagascar. It is easly recognized by the particular pattern on its carapace.
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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