AquaWiki海鉴 · Northern China Seas

Habitats

Habitat galleries

Walk from rocky tide pools to the farm rafts and meet the aquatic life of the northern Chinese seas by habitat. A species can live in several.

岩礁潮间带

Rocky shore

Tide pools and rocks exposed at low tide, carpeted with mussels and home to seastars, greenlings and wakame.

15 species →
泥沙滩与河口

Mudflats & estuaries

Burrowing clams, hard clams and razor clams, mantis shrimp in their burrows, and mitten crabs moving between fresh and salt water.

13 species →
潮下带与近海底层

Subtidal & benthic

Seen only by diving or trawling: sea cucumbers, ark clams, whelks, flounder and gazami crabs.

22 species →
近海中上层

Coastal pelagic

Mackerel and squid that migrate in seasonal schools and come inshore to spawn in spring.

2 species →
养殖筏架与设施

Aquaculture

The stars of northern mariculture: scallops, oysters, kelp, abalone and tank-farmed flatfish.

19 species →