Shuisheng Shengwu Museum

The Museum of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is located in the Institute of Hydrobiology on the south bank of the East Lake in Wuhan, close to Wuhan University. The predecessor of the museum is the Freshwater Fish Museum, which has a history of 60 years since it moved from Shanghai to Wuhan in 1954. The museum has a rich collection of aquatic biological specimens, including more than 1,000 species of freshwater fish specimens in China, with more than 400,000 tails; more than 600 species of fish specimens from 34 foreign countries and regions; more than 20,000 algae specimens; taxa of invertebrate specimens. The museum's "treasure of the town hall" is a spearfish specimen, which is the oldest living fish in the world. In addition, you can also see the extinct Baiji dolphin specimens, as well as Chinese sturgeon, white sturgeon, finless porpoise, Shanrui turtle, giant salamander, carmine, Chinese alligator and other aquatic biological specimens, as well as abundant carps and Qinghai-Tibet. Plateau fish specimens, etc.