A 98% complete list of nearly every species you could see at the Shedd Aquarium throughout 12 attractions as of March 8, 2016. Amazon Rising 1. Polka-Dot Catfish, White-faced Whistling Duck 2. River's Edge: Wattled Jacana, Largemouth Cichlid, Puffer, Silver Croaker, Giant Bumblebee Catfish, Tiger River Stingray, Pictus Catfish, Gilded Catfish, Pineapple Pleco, Chocolate-covered Catfish, Adonis Catfish, Emerald Catfish, Tucan Fish, Galaxy Pleco, Sabalo Characin 3. Goliath Bird-eater Spider 4. Giant Peruvian Cockroach 5. Sky-blue Poison Dart Frog 6. Amazon Milk Frog 7. Suntiger Tarantula 8. Floodplain Lake: Bigtooth River Stingray, Yelow-spotted Amazon River Turtle, Wattled Jacana, White-faced Whistling Duck, Brazilian Teal, Tiger River Stingray, White-blotched River Stingray, Giant Plated Catfish, Adonis Catfish, Blue-eye Panaque, Banded Leporinus, Elongate Hatchetfish, Silver Pacu, Payara 9. Dry Forest: Red-footed Tortoise, Yellow-footed Tortoise, Puffer, Hog-nosed Brochis Catfish, Leopard Frog Pleco, Sailfin Surgeonfish 10. Flooded Forest: Bigtooth River Stingray, Yellow-spotted Amazon River Turtle, Disk Pacu, Striped Headstander, Threespot Headstander, Elongate Hatchetfish, False Black Tetra, Redhook Myleus, Tucan Fish, Blue Discus, Emerald Cichlid, Parrot Cichlid, Agassiz's Leporinus, Banded Leporinus 11. Giant Waxy Monkey Frog 12. Black-legged Poison Dart Frog, Three-striped Poison Dart Frog 13. Rain Wall Focus Tank: Twist-neck Turtle, Caecilian, Puffer, Leopard Frog Pleco, Otocinclus, Spotfin Tetra, Glowlight Tetra, Imitating Cory 14. Floodplain House: Gulper Catfish, Bigtooth River Stingray, White-blotched River Stringray, Cadago Sideneck Turtle, Silver Arawana, Gilded Catfish, Redhook Myleus, Demon Eartheater, Galaxy Pleco, Tigerstriped Catfish, Giant Plated Catfish, Disk Pacu, Leopard Pleco 15. Caiman Lizard 16. Phantasmal Dart Frog 17. Floodplain House 2: Red-bellied Pirahna, Oscar Cichlid, Redhead Geophagus Cichlid, South American Tigerfish, Royal Pleco, Pinktail Chalceus, Buck-tooth Tetra, Scarlet Catfish 18. Muddy Forest: Goeldi's Monkey, Panda Corydoras, Puffer, Glass Bloodfin, Royal Tetra, Golden Pencilfish, Tiger Loricaria, Queen Arabesque Pleco, Otocinclus 19. Cuvier's Dwarf Caiman 20. Green Anaconda 21. Emerald Tree Python, Mimic Poison Dart Frog, Blue Poison Dart Frog 22. River Channel: Arapaima, White-blotched River Ray, Discus Ray, Yellow-spotted Amazon River Turtle, Blackfin Pacu, Cadago Sideneck Turtle, Blackfin Brycon, Oscar Cichlid, Granulated Catfish, Peruvian Severum, Black Thorny Catfish, Firewood Catfish, Leopard Catfish, Achara Catfish 23. Ecudorian Purple Pinktoe Tarantula, Peruvian Green-and-gold Millipede 24. Electric Eel 25. Fish Hobby Tank: Bolivian Ram, Leopard Corydoras, Freshwater Angelfish, Pleco Catfish, Colombian Tetra, Redeye Tetra, Sailfin Surgeon Catfish, Puffer 26. Diversity Habitat: Suriname Toad, Xingu Rapids Cichlid, Spotted Pike Characin, Whitebarred Catfish, Doras Catfish, Golden Nugget Pleco, Green Phantom Pleco, Pario-ancistrus Pleco, Tiger Loricaria, Mandube Catfish, Silver Croaker, Largemouth Cichlid, Filtermouth Cichlid, Acara, Zamora Driftwood Catfish, Jewel Tetra, Common Headstander, 27. Beauty of the Amazon: Red-headed Side-necked Turtle, Green Pike, Rummy Nosed Tetra, Cardinal Tetra, King Tiger Pleco, River Hatchetfish, Green Phantom Pleco, Black Phantom Tetra, Black Neon Tetra, Marbled Hatchetfish, Corydoras Catfish, Longnose Angelfish, Britski's Catfish Oceans 1. Senorita Wrasse, Round Stingray, Tube-snout, Longnose Hawkfish, Cortez Angelfish, Blacksmith, Clarion Angelfish, Mexican Hogfish, Rosy Rockfish, Threeband Butterflyfish, Red Abalone, Strawberry Anemone, Giant Green Anemone, Vermilion Rockfish 2. Stripey, Shaw's Cowfish, Horseshoe Leatherjacket Fish, Silver Sweep, Oldwife, Magpie Morwong, Moonligther 3. Gariboldi, Strawberry Anemone, Black Surfperch, Striped Surfperch, Bat Sea Star, Tiger Rockfish, C-O Sole, Red Abalone, Flag Rockfish, Rainbow Surfperch, Copper Rockfish, Pile Surfperch 4. Horn Shark, Giant Pink Star, Swell Shark, Ocean Whitefish, Green Moray Eel, Giant Green Anemone, Strawberry Anemone, California Moray Eel 5. American Lobster (Blue) 6. Chain Dogfish, Ten-ridged Whelk, Oyster Toadfish 7. Cardinal Fish 8. Grunt Sculpin, Coon-striped Shrimp, Bat Sea Star, Northern Ronquil, Giant Pink Sea Star, Red Sea Urchin, Sailfin Sculpin, Gopher Rockfish, Vermilion Star, Northern Clingfish, Northern Spearnose Poacher 9. Blackeye Goby, Flag Rockfish, Red Sea Urchin 10. Coon-striped Shrimp, Strawberry Anemone, Giant Barnacle, Jeweled Anemone, Decorated Warbonnet, Giant Green Anemone, Plumose Anemone, Rainbow Star 11. Rainbow Star, Giant Pink Star, Purple Sea Urchin, Red Sea Urchin, California Scorpionfish, Tube Anemone 12. Copper Rockfish, Striped Surgperch, Blue Rockfish, China Rockfish, Red Sea Urchin 13. Blue Jack Mackerel, Northern Sea Star 14. Giant Pacific Octopus, Tube Anemone, Strawberry Anemone, Fish Eating Anemone, Purple Sea Urchin, Painted Anemone 15. Wolf Eel, Japanese Spider Crab, Big Roughy, Tube Anemone 16. Giant Deep Sea Isopod, Leather Sea Star, Plumose Anemone, Spotted Ratfish 17. Lumpfish, Northern Sea Star, Giant Sea Urchin, Spotted Wolffish Seahorses and Pipefish 1. Potbellied Seahorse, Snipefish, Red Seaperch, French Hogfish, Pineapple Fish, Weedy Pipefish 2. Oceanic Seahorse, Tiger Tail Seahorse, Shrimpfish, Copperband Butterflyfish, Starburst Coral, Dragonface Pipefish, Clown Anemonefish, Cabbage Coral, Banded Coral Shrimp, Mushroom Coral, Soft Finger Coral, Jans's Pipefish, Golden Goby, Hammer Coral 3. Lined Seahorse, Longsnout Seahorse, White's Seahorse, Lesser Starlet Coral, Sea Fan, Boulder Star Coral, Knobby Sea Rod, Goldspot Goby, Masked Goby, Fourseye Butterflyfish, Cherubfish, Sally Lightfoot Crab, Encrusting Gorgonian, Saddled Blenny, Mini Brittle Star, Purple Sea Plume, Veriegated Urchin, Longsnout Butterflyfish At Home on the Great Lakes 1. Walleye 2. Yellow Perch 3. Bluegill, Green Sunfish, White Suckerfish, Longnose Dace, Northern Sunfish, Spotfin Shiner, Spottail Shiner, Stonecat, Blackstripe Minnow, Red-spotted Sunfish, Orangespotted Sunfish, Rock Bass, Tadpole Madtom, Banded Darter, Blacknose Dace, Bluntnose Minnow, Blackside Darter, Iowa Darter, Central Stoneroller, Johnny Darter, Rainbow Darter, Central Mudminnow 4. Lake Sturgeon (Touch Pool) 5. Burbot, Common Carp, Gizzard Shad 6. Alewife 7. Koi, Mottled Sculpin 8. Round Goby, Sand Shiner, Lake Chub, Bluntnose Dace, Spottail Shiner 9. Sea Lamprey, Lake Chubsucker, Golden Shiner 10. Largemouth Bass 11. Silver Carp, Bighead Carp 12. Mudpuppy 13. Lake Sturgeon 14. Wood Duck 15. Grass Pickerel 16. Brook Trout, Striped Shiner, Warmouth, Longear Sunfish, Yellow Bass, Longnose Gar, Yellow Bullhead 17. Alligator Snapping Turtle, Dollar Sunfish, Lake Herring Islands and Lakes 1. Ringed Map Turtle, Ring-sawback Turtle, Least Killifish, Bluespotted Sunfish, Flagfish, Golden Topminnow, Blackheaded Sunfish, Lined Topminnow, Mosquitofish 2. Panther Chameleon, Zoto, Madagascar Rainbowfish 3. Tropical Gar, Midas Cichlid, Flier Cichlid 4. Blackline Rasbora, Sparkling Gourami, Checkerboard Barb, Mountain Rock Goby, Valiant's Chocolate Gourami, Blue Line Licorice Gourami, Moonight Gourami 5. Pearl Gourami, Croaking Gourami, Winged Nepenthes, Tropical Pitcher Plant, Lambchop Rasbora, Deisseneri's Licorice Gourami, Sawbwa Barb, Chocolate Gourami, Kapuas River Halfbeak 6. Exuma Rock Iguana, Blunthead Wrasse, Slippery Dick, Spanish Hogfish, French Grunt, Redfin Needlefish, Black Durgon, Blue Tang, Indigo Hamlet, Shy Hamlet, Tobacco Fish, Yellow Stingray 7. Purple Head Cichlid, Rock Kribensis Cichlid, Zebra Obliquidens 8. Leleupi Cichlid, Banded Dwarf Cichlid, Fluorescent Cichlid, African Butterflyfish 9. Duboisi Cichlid, Humphead Cichlid, Compressiceps, Blue Julie Cichlid, Marleer Dwarf Cichlid, Leopard Catfish 10. Cuckoo Catfish, African Tigerfish 11. Spindle Hap Cichlid, Elegant Venustus Cichlid, Dolphin Cichlid, Malawi Eye-Biter Cichlid, Malawi Sandsifter, Star Cichlid, Malawi Christyi Cichlid 12. Red Peacock Cichlid, Zimbabwe Rock Cichlid, Blue and Blue Cichlid, Dinghani Cichlid, Yellow Cichlid, Durante Cichlid, Reef Cichlid 13. Sungai Sembra, Crazy Kabong Fish 14. Playfair's Killifish, Celebes Rainbowfish, Daisy Ricefish 15. Blue Gularis, Neon Blue Cichlid, Banded Panchax 16. Mexican Blind Cave Fish Reptiles 1. Common Musk Turtle, Eastern Mud Turtle 2. Green Mantella Frog, Blue Leg Mantella Frog, Black-eared Mantella Frog, Golden Mantella Frog, Seychelles Day Gecko 3. Mountain Horned Dragon 4. Tentacled Snake, Glass Goby, Rhinoceros Rat Snake, Dwarf Rasbera Rivers 1. Clouded Archerfish, Humpback Puffer 2. Harlequin Rasbora, Choprae Danio, Neon Hatchetfish, Freshwater Pipefish 3. Fire Eel, Pearl Danio, Siamese Flying Fox 4. Jewel Glassfish, Highfin Neon Barb, Polka-dot Loach, Clown Loach, Cherry Barb, Glass Goby, Glass Catfish, Arulius Barb, Demison Barb, Yellow Chromide 5. Polka-dot Loach, Ompack Catfish, Humphead Glassfish, Harlequin Rasbora, Kisising Gourami, Mountain Rock Goby, Celebes Halfbeak, Dwarf Chain Loach, Scissortail Rasbor 6. African Lungish, Kafue Pike 7. Banded Fingerifsh, Long-finned African Tetra, Pearl Cichlid, Cross River Puffer, Congo Tetra, Leopard Ctenopoma, West African Dwarf Cichlid, Ornae Bichir, Congo Bichir, African Moon Tetra, Bandback Birchir 8. Egyptian Moutherbrooder Cichlid, Featherfin Squeaker, African Knifefish, African Butter Catfish 9. American Paddlefish, Shovelnose Sturgeon, Longnose Gar 10. Australian Lungfish, Merten's Water Monitor, Red-bellied Short-necked Turtle, Murray Rirver Rainbowfish, Northern Spotted Arowana 11. Red Emperor Gudeon, Lake Kutubu Rainbowfish, Vermilion Rainbowfish, Orangeback Rainbowfish 12. Fly River Turtle, Spotted Blue-eye 13. Violet-line Piranha, Buck-toothed Tetra, Butterfly Goodeid 14. T-bar Cichlid, Holdridge's Livebearer, Banded Tetra, Freshwater Prawn 15. Ocellated Featherback, Asian Arowana, Tinfoil Barb, Fire Eel, Bala Shark, Clown Loach, Campell's Tigerfish 16. Giant Gourami, Black Spot Barb, T-Barb, Clown Barb, Bronze River Puffer Wild Reef Above by Entrance: Atlantic Sea Nettle 1. Shoreline Surf a. Clark's Clownfish, Green Chromis, Mustard Tang b. Convict Tang, Foxface, Undullated Triggerfish 2. Sailfin Tang, Green Chromis, Orange Masked Tang, Orange Anthias, Powder Blue Tang 3. Crown of Thorns Tank: Crown of Thorns Sea Star, Saddled Puffer, Anemone Clownfish 4. Schooling Fish: Collared Butterfly, Fourstripe Damselfish, Green Chromis, Tomato Clownfish, Clown Grouper, Orange Anthias, Purple Square Anthias, Queensland Grouple, Double-barred Rabbitfish, Foxface, Orangespot Rabbitfish, Scibbled Rabbitfish, Black-edged Puffer, Double-saddled Butterflyfish, Lined Butterflyfish, Latticed Butterflyfish, Longnose Butterflyfish, Pearlscale Butterflyfish, Phillippine Butterflyfish, Spot-band Butterflyfish, Saddleback Butterflyfish, Threadfin Butterflyfish, Threadfin Damselfish, Vagabond Butterflyfish, Arc Eye Hawkfish 5. Slipper Lobster 6. Harlequin Shrimp, Yellow Clown Goby 7. Mid-Predator Tank: Blueline Triggerfish, Blueline Snapper, Emperor Snapper, Clown Triggerfish, Redtooth Triggerfish, Honeycomb Moray Eel, Undulated Triggerfish, Raccoon Butterflyfish, Blue and Yellow Grouper, Clown Grouper, Porcupinefish, Round-faced Batfish, Candycane Squirrelfish, Coral Grouper, Yellowbanded Sweetlips, Panther Grouper, Napoleon Wrasse, Six Line Soapfish, Speckled Blue Line Grouper, Targetfish 8. Eel Tank: Zebra Moray Eel, Coral Catfish, Blackbar Soldierfish, Metallic Squirrelfish 9. Garden Eel Tank: Spotted Garden Eel, Cockatoo Waspfish, Philippine Garden Eel, Pajama Cardinal Fish, Sailfin Leaf Scorpionfish, Bar Goby 10. Commerson's Frogfish 11. Nocturnal Tank: Glasseye Snapper, Chambered Nautilus, Candycane Squirrelfish, Blackbar Soldierfish, Snowflake Moray Eel 12. Red Lionfish, Boradbarred Firefish 13. Shark Habitat: Zebra Shark, Whitespotted Guitarfish, Green Sawfish, Spotted Wobbegong Shark, Sandbar Shark, Japanese Wobbegong Shark,Bluelined Snapper, Humphead Wrasse, Sergeant Major, Fourstriped Damsel, Blue Devil Damsel 14. Stingray Way: Ribbontail Stingray, Blue-spotted Stingray 15. Flashlightfish 16. Symbiosis: Achilles Tang, Mushroom Coral, Bush Gorgonian, Philippine Yellow Tang, Bluetip Anemone, Anemone Clownfish, Pink Anemonefish, Red-cheeked Fairy Basslet, Twinspot Anthias, Finger Feather Coral, Leather Coral, Twosport Anthias, Toadstool Leather Coral, Yellow Tinga Brittle Star, Black Cardinalfish, Copperband Butterflyfish, Cup Coral 17. Sygnathids: Blood Red Cleaner Shrimp 18. Mandarin Fish, Ringed Pipefish 19. Pom Pom Crab 20. Lagoon Coral: Philippine Yellow Tang, Bushy Gorgonian, Clown Fairy Wrasse, Orangespot Filefish, Cinnamon Clownfish, Leather Coral, Fathead Anthias, Toadstool Leather Coral, Mushroom Coral, Starburst Coral 21. Mangrove: Silver Mono, Green Scar, Kole Tang, Black-edged Puffer, White-spotted Bamboo Shark, Smallscale Archerfish, Round Batfish, Scrawled Filefish 22. Upside Down Jellyfish 23. Lagoon: Slingjaw Wrasse, Kole Tang, Marine Betta, Cream Angelfish, Pajama Cardinalfish, Flagfin Angelfish, Magestic Angelfish, Redfin Needlefish, Saddleback Clownfish, Vagabond Butterflyfish, Longnose Hawkfish, White-spotted Bamboo Shark, Scribbled Rabbitfish, Dogface Puffer, Barred Flagtail, Saddle Hogfish Caribbean Reef 1. Scrawled Filefish, Green Sea Turtle, Yellow Singray, Sharksucker, Permit, Green Moray eel, Tarpon, Lookdown, Bonnethead, Cownose Ray, Blue Angelfish, Harlequin Bass, Reef Butteflyfish, Yellowtail Snapper, Squirrelfish, Puffingwife, Blue Tang, Brown Chromis, Spotted Goatfish, Doctorfish, Saucereye Porgy, white-spotted Filefish, Yellowhead Wrasse, Gray Angelfish, French Angelfish, Lookdown, Spotfin Butterflyfish, Balloonfish, Boga, Creole-fish, Blackfin Snapper, Orange-spotted Filefish, Redband Parrotfish, Bonnetmouth, Glasseye Snapper, Scrawled Cowfish, Sand Tilefish, Indigo Hamlet, Bigeye Scad, Blackbar Soldierfish, Bluehead Wrasse, Smallmouth Grunt, Longspine Squirrelfish, Yellow Goatfish, Mackerel Scad, Tobaccofish, Barred Hamelt, Sky Hamelt, Longsnouth Butterflyfish, Striped Grunt, Striped Parrotfish, Butter Hamlet, Sargassum Triggerfish, Southern Stingray, Hogfish Pacific Northwest Oceanarium and Polar Play Zone Upper Level 1. River Mouth Tank: C-O Sole, Copper Rockfish, Pacific Staghorn Sculpin, Painted Greenling, Red Sea Urchin, Kelp Greenling, White-spotted Greenling, Sunflower Sea Star, Red Irish Lord, China Rockfish, Red Rock Crab, Quillback Rockfish 2. Beluga 3. California Sea Lion 4. Pacific White-sided Dolphin 5. Sea Otter Lower Level 1. Beluga 2. Leather Sea Star 3. West Coast Sea Nettle 4. Icy South: Southern Rockhopper Penguin, Magellanic Penguin 5. Pacific White-sided Dolphin/Beluga 6. Sea Otter 7. Touch Pool Special Exhibit: Amphibians 1. Green Tree Frog, American Toad 2. Cricket Frog, Spring Peeper, Western Chorus Frog 3. Fire-bellied Newt 4. Surinam Toad 5. Wood Frog 6. Fire-bellied Toad 7. Kaup's Caecilian 8. Marbled Salamander, Grey Tree Frog, Southern Leopard Frog, Spotted Salamander 9. Lesser Siren 10. Axolotl 11. Tomato Frog 12. Phantasmal Dart Frog, Pleasing Dart Frog, Yellow Headed Dart Frog, Harlequin Frog 13. Solomon Island Leaf Frog 14. Iberian Newt 15. Amazon Milk Frog 16. Emperor Salamander, Asian Yellow-spotted Climbing Toad 17. Cane Toad 18. Slimy Salamander, Four-toed Salamander, Seepage Salamander, Ococee Salamander 19. Eastern Hellbender 20. African Bullfrog 21. Surinam Horned Toad 22. Japanese Giant Salamander 23. Bullfrog 24. Green-and-black Poison Dart Frog, Strawberry Poison Dart Frog 25. Tiger Salamander 26. African Clawed Frog
A supreme effort! Thanks for posting the list and the species count at the world-class Shedd Aquarium has always been consistently high. What is your favourite part of the facility?
That must have taken quite some time! This is the one major aquarium in America that I haven't visited yet, and I hope to be able to soon. Do you have any idea where the Japanese Giant Salamander came from?
Without question it can't be argued that cetaceans are the fan favorite for a majority of guests that visit aquariums that display them, including me. In 4 visits I spent a combined total of 7 hours just watching the belugas and lags above and below. However, I was always overwhelmed with the high rating diversity throughout the Wild Reef including the Crown of Thorns, a schooling fish tank of 60 species, a stingray exhibit you can walk on, and lastly the incredibly rare Green Sawfish. Lastly, if I were to have a favorite exhibit based on structure creativity, then Amazon Rising caught my eye. I love the fact that it was designed to make every exhibit, both with shared land and full water habitats, appear to be one large enclosure along three walls as if you're in the water yourself and viewing the animals at ground level. And coming up with this list wasn't easy. As you should probably know, about 50% of exhibit signage is displayed digitally on an iPad and not every species is listed with one look. I had to scroll through and quickly take pictures (I took about 350) of every animal listed while obviously constantly keeping a few impatient people busy.
That's because there was no dog part of the aquatic show. The one we attended, the last one of the day, didn't even have the belugas part of the show.
Very impressive work and for one of my favorite aquariums! I'm a bit puzzled about two entries in Amazon Rising: Sailfin Surgeonfish (in Dry Forest) and Sailfin Surgeon Catfish (in Fish Hobby Tank). Did a typo sneak in? Perhaps Sailfin Catfish, Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps? If no typos, did you get a scientific name? (sailfin surgeonfish is the name of a marine fish that wouldn't survive in freshwater.) Regardless, excellent work with the list.
A supreme effort..well done! Now, the last International Zoo Yearbook lists 1433 species(2014) for the Shedd putting it in second place as the most diverse zoological facility on the planet(Zoo Berlin is top with 1504).I dont know how many taxa are on this list(and cant be bothered counting)..could you tell me please?
I know you made this list several years ago, but do you have a list of species present in the second Caribbean Reef tank? If you don't, do you know what lobster species is kept there?
This species list is fabulous! There should not have been too much that has changed to my knowledge, so the totals from each exhibit should be: 156 species in Amazon rising 96 species in Oceans 38 species in Seahorses and pipefish 56 species in At home on the great lakes 80 species in Islands and lakes 12 species in Reptiles 78 species in Rivers 152 species in Wild reef 55 species in Caribbean reef 20 species in Pacific northwest Oceanarium I could not find a species list for underwater beauty(the special exhibit), but I believe there are around 30 species There may be some repeats or new/removed species from those totals, I was using the excellent list above.
As of July 2021, this is the breakdown of what I saw, excluding repeats: Amazon rising: 188 species (Incomplete) Wild reef: 68 species (Incomplete) Underwater beauty: 55 species (Incomplete) Abbot oceanarium: 17 species Oceans: 86 species Seahorses and pipefish: 24 species At home on the great lakes: 79 species Islands and lakes: 65 species Reptiles: 4 species Rivers: 84 species Caribbean reef: 80 species A total of 746 species, and as you can see the gallery numbers have fluctuated a bit, but the total singed species remains between 700-800 species.
