Naval Marine Musuem

Rooms

To illustrate different facet of Andaman Islands, Samudrika Marine Museum has divided the place into well thought out five gallery rooms

First Room

Intersting facts about Andamans are dipicted in first room like-

• Islands geographical history
• lifestyle of various tribes of Andaman
• Insects found in Andamans with their classification
• Tropical forests and wood found in Andamans.Also samples for display
• About only Volcanic Islands of india present in andaman namley Barren and Narcondam Island

Second Room or “Aqua” room

• An aquarium in the second room has collection of fishes of all shapes and sizes e.g.
• Pterois volitans or Red lionfish
• Blue ring angelfish or Pomacanthus annularis
• Chaetodon falcula or Blackwedged butterflyfish
• Chaetodon decussatus or Indian vagabond butterflyfish
• Pseudanthias bimaculatus or two-spot basslet
• Pseudanthias squamipinnis or lyretail coralfish
• Epinephelus flavocaeruleus or Blue-and-yellow grouper
• Epinephelus fasciatus or Blacktip grouper
• Whitespotted grouper or Epinephelus Caeruleopunctatus
• Barred Soapfish or Diploprion bifasciatum
• Red lionfish or Pterois volitans
• Spotfin lionfish or Pterois antennata
• Razor fish or Aeoliscus strigatus
• Ghost pipefis or Solenostomus cyanopterus Bleeker
• Little dragonfish or Eurypegasus draconis
• Coral Eel, Giraffe Eel or Gymnothorax favagineus Bloch & Schneider

Third Room or “Coral” room

• Variety of corals are in display like
• Blue Coral belongs to family helioporidae
• Staghorn Coral belongs to family acroporidae
• Red Coral belongs to family fungiidae
• Mushroom Coral belongs to family Helioporidae
• Brain Coral elongs to family mussidae

Fourth Room

• In Room number four, visitors will see a variety of sea shells eg.
• Turbo Shell belongs to family turbinidae
• Trochus Shell belongs to family trochidae
• Nautilus Shell belongs to family nautilidae
• Conus Shell belongs to family conus
• Seaurchins belongs to family echinoderm
• Quuen Shells belongs to family queen
• Clam Seashell
• Horn Shells belongs to family spirulidae
• Triton Seashell belongs to family cymatiidae

Fifth Room

• This room illustrate various life aspects of the tribe present in Andaman and nicoabr Islands.
• Butterflies specimens are exhibited here.
• The Japanese period currencyc could be seen here.