California Academy of Sciences, African Hall Gallery

African Hall, a central part of the new Tusher African Center, is both a dramatic recreation of exhibits beloved by generations of Academy visitors and a breath-taking new look at the biogeography and diversity of landscapes, plants, and animals of sub-Sahara Africa. The introduction to live ...more ↓

African Penguin ¹
Spheniscus demersus

Ochre Sea Star ²
Pisaster ochraceus

Purple Sea Urchin ³
Strongylocentrotus purpuratus

Striped cat shark ⁴
Poroderma africanum

Pseudotropheus elongatus ⁵

Pseudotropheus zebra ⁶

Nimbochromis venustus ⁷

Pseudotropheus crabro ⁸

Demasons cichlide ⁹
Pseudotropheus demasoni

Aulonocara ⁷

Cyrtocara moorii ¹⁰

Melanochromis auratus ¹¹

Labeotropheus fuelleborni ¹²

Maylandia ¹⁰

Sudan Plated Lizard ¹³
Gerrhosaurus major

Crevice Tortoise ¹⁴
Malacochersus tornieri

Jackson's Chameleon ¹⁵
Trioceros jacksonii

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