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Title
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Marine fshes and sea anemones in Natural History Museum of Bu-Ali Sina University
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Type
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Presentation
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Keywords
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Perciformes, Saltwater fish, Actiniaria, Hamedan, Iran
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Abstract
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Natural history museums are introduced as an important source of natural inspiration for the general community in different aspects and also have a duty to store native and non-native permanent (Miyazaki et al., 2015) and temporary collections. In order to improv the public knowledge, natural history museums are trying to use live animals [e.g. saltwater aquarium fishes and sea anemones). Marine fishes (order: Perciformes) and sea anemones (order: Actiniaria) with beautiful, bright color and personality (as a beautiful exhibition model in natural history museums) are generally known as one of the most important living jewels that can be attractive for visitors. Saltwater aquariums of natural history museum of Bu-Ali Sina University (except freshwater part) was typically ornamented with approximately 500 specimens belonging to 45 live species of exhibition marine fishes and sea anemones (such as Blue tang surgeonfish; Powder blue surgeonfish; Sohal Surgeonfish; Elegant unicornfish; Orangespine unicornfish; Yellow-tail blue Tang; Red Sea Sailfin Tang; Yellow Tang; Twotone Tang; Banggai Cardinalfish; Clown triggerfish; Picasso triggerfish; Halfmoon triggerfish; Mandarinfish; Black-spotted Butterfly fish; Yellow Butterflyfish; Butterflyfishes; Copperband Butterflyfish; Pennant coralfish; Blue-spotted Stingray; Orbicular Batfish; Decorated goby; Gulf goby; Arabian carpetshark; Bird mouth Wrasse; Moon Wrasse; Silver moony; White Ribbon Eel; Sergeant major; Clark’s Clownfish; Tomato Clownfish; Ocellaris Clownfish; Bluestriped angelfish; Black-tailed Damsel fish; Domino Damsel; Yellowbar Angelfish; Maroon Clownfish; Orange Dottyback; Common Parrotfish; Spotted Scat; Humpback grouper; Foxface Rabbitfish; Sebae Anemone; Haddon’s Carpet Anemone; Merten’s Carpet Anemone) belonging to different families that can play a direct role in the presentation quality in increasing visitor’s satisfaction. The scientific names of the specimens are below: Acanthuridae: Acanthurus coeruleus
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Researchers
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Amir Jafari (Fourth Researcher), Soheil Masoudian (Third Researcher), (Second Researcher), Farshad Masoudian (First Researcher)
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