本馆概况

广东海洋大学水生生物博物馆是我国最大的专业博物馆之一,始建于1991年7月，2004年迁入风景秀丽的湖光岩畔、广东海洋大学主校区西侧，为五层结构的独立建筑，展示面积5000多平方米，是学校教学、科研的辅助平台，也是学校对外交流的窗口。先后被认定为“湛江市青少年科普教育基地”、“广东省青少年科技教育基地”、“全国海洋科普教育基地”、“广东省科普教育基地”、“全国科普教育基地”。

馆内设有科技成果展厅、水族厅、标本展厅、专题展览室、纪念厅等五大部分，陈列了来自世界各地的水生生物标本3000多种，包括鲸类、鱼类、贝类、虾蟹类、棘皮动物、腔肠动物、藻类、红树类以及其它水生生物标本等，还收藏了一批珍稀标本及国家一、二级保护生物标本，具有“多”、“全”、“奇”、“珍”四大特点。

多： 馆内陈列的水生生物标本约三千种，其中有色彩斑斓的贝类一千多种，鲜明艳丽的鱼类九百余种，形态各异的甲壳类约四百种和多姿多彩的藻类近四百种，其他淡水和海洋水生生物数百种。这些标本按分类系统陈列，整齐美观，构成了一个神奇的水生生物世界。

全：一是品种门类齐全，既有鱼类、贝类、甲壳类和藻类，又有鲸类、爬行和两栖类以及棘皮、环节、海绵、腔肠等动物。二是种类来自世界各地，有南极洲的磷虾，北美洲的巨藻、南美洲的红鲍，又有非洲的鳄鱼、欧洲的牡蛎和澳洲的螯虾；有西沙、南沙群岛的珊瑚、玳瑁，也有塔里木盆地和洞庭湖的贝类等。

奇：有一批奇特怪异的标本，如头长两角的崇安髭蟾，连体双头的鲨鱼怪胎，能发电的电鳐，善于跳跃的弹涂鱼，能伸展胸鳍在空中滑翔的燕鳐。有“双壳类之王”百斤重的大砗磲，活化石的中国鲎，还有剧毒的河豚、噬人致死的芋螺和锯齿脂鲤等。

珍：珍藏了国家一、二级保护动物标本，如中华鲟、红珊瑚、鼋、小抹香鲸、斑海豹、玳瑁、大鲵、文昌鱼、鹦鹉螺、大珠母贝、中国鲎、三线闭壳龟等，还有一批珍贵的贝类和鱼类化石。

为了彰扬我国海洋与水产科学界前辈的业绩，更好地推进青少年科技教育工作，馆内设立了“张玺教授纪念厅”、“曾呈奎院士纪念厅”和“朱元鼎教授纪念厅”，介绍了他们的生平事迹并展示和陈列了他们的成果和业绩。

博物馆的展示既有科学性和学术性，又富知识性和趣味性，具有较高科研和观赏价值，也是进行科普教育的形象教材。为了提升科普宣传效果和服务水平，本馆还建立了数据库和海洋生物图片网页，通过网络共享，向国内外公众提供丰富多彩的生物多样性资料和相关科普信息。

 Aquatic Organisms Museum of Guangdong  Ocean University

The Aquatic Organisms Museum Of Guangdong Ocean University was founded in July 1991 and then moved here in November 2004. In the fifteen individual exhibition rooms, diverse specimens of aquatic organisms are displayed, such as whales，reptiles，amphibians，fishes，crabs， shrimps，shellfishes，echinoderms, coelenterates, mangroves and algae. The museum is characterized with the features of variety，entirety, peculiarity and rarity.

VARIETY The museum contains about 3000 species of aquatic organisms. Among them, there are more than 1000 species of kaleidoscopic shellfishes; over 900 species of gaily-colored fishes; 400 species of crabs and shrimps of various shapes; nearly 400 species of varied and graceful algae and hundreds of other freshwater and sea aquatic organisms. These samples are exhibited orderly and beautifully by their categories, which forms a mystical world of aquatic organisms.

ENTIRETY  The visitors can feel the “entirety” of the museum through two facts. One is that there are all species of various aquatic organisms here, such as fishes, crabs, shrimps, algae, whales, reptiles, amphibians, echinoderms, annelid, sponge and coelenterates. The other is that most of the samples on display are collected from all over the world. For example，the krill from the Antarctica；the giant algae from North America；the red abalone from South America；the crocodile from Africa； the oyster from Europe；the prawn from Australia；the tropical coral reef and turtle from Xisha  and Nansha Islands (South China Sea)； the shellfish from Tarim Basin and the Dongting Lake (in China),etc.

PECULIARITY Being rich in peculiar samples is another outstanding feature of the museum. The best examples are  vibrissaphora  boringii toad (horned monster)with two horns on its head, the freak shark with a combined body and two heads, the electric ray discharging electricity, the mudskipper good at jumping, the flying fish gliding in the sky by stretching its pectorals, the giant clam (the king of bivalve shellfish) weighting tens of kilograms, the horseshoe crab with blue blood, the globefish containing deadly poison, the taro conch swallowing people to death and the humpback, etc.

RARITY  The museum collects the specimens of some precious animals under First-grade and Second-grade national preservation， including pygmy sperm whole, common seal，wide-beaked porpoise，hawk′s bill twtle，giant salamander，Chinese sturgeon，lancelet，nautilus， silverlip pearl and so on. There are also shell fossils and fish fossils of 450 million years ago.

In order to publicize the outstanding achievements of those predecessor scientists who have devoted themselves to the sea science  and aquatic science of our country, three memorial halls are set up here in honor of Pro.Zhang-Xi, Pro.Zhu-Yuanding and Pro. Zeng-Chengkui,  where their lives, scientific contributions and research achievements are described.

While serving as the base of instruction, research and the popularization of scientific knowledge, the museum integrates and expresses the qualities of being scientific, intellectual, interesting, entertaining and enjoyable. The museum has been appointed as a scenic spot of the Zhanjiang City and a scientific and educational base for the youth and teenagers of Zhanjiang City and Guangdong Province.