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Texas State Aquarium Texas State Aquarium Species List (May 2022)

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  1. David Peden

    David Peden Well-Known Member

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    Here's a comprehensive species for the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi that I made back in May of this year. A few species were unsigned, but I was able to ID almost all of them thanks to the very helpful employees and a bit of googling.


    Caribbean Journey
    Longnose killifish
    Firemouth cichlid
    Mexican sailfin molly
    Mexican tetra
    Giant Mexican musk turtle
    American flamingo
    Scarlet ibis
    Red capped cardinal
    Turquoise tanager
    Scarlet macaw
    Venezuelan troupial
    Violaceous euphonia
    Blue and gold macaw
    Orange winged parrot
    Blue grey tanager
    Sunbittern
    Silver beaked tanager
    White winged parakeet
    Blue crowned motmot
    Green iguana
    Green and black poison frog
    Bumblebee poison frog
    Blue poison frog
    Cuban false chameleon
    Ball python
    Brazilian rainbow boa
    Striped burrfish
    Checkered puffer
    Porkfish
    Atlantic sergeant major
    Mangrove snapper
    Night sergeant
    Bluestripe grunt
    French grunt
    Smallmouth grunt
    Southern stingray
    Great barracuda
    Spotfin burrfish
    Brown shark
    Nurse shark
    Atlantic tarpon
    Southern screamer
    Brazilian agouti
    Red tailed boa
    Vampire bat
    Atlantic stingray
    Yellow stingray
    Red legged seriema
    Red cushion sea star
    Honeycomb moray
    Spotted moray
    Ocellated moray
    Sharknose goby
    Bluehead wrasse
    Orange filefish
    Blackbar soldierfish
    Eyestripe surgeon
    Caribbean redlip blenny
    Threespot damselfish
    Bird nest coral
    Open brain coral
    Plate coral
    Club finger coral
    Blue chromis
    Pacific cleaner shrimp
    Lyretail anthias
    Pacific sailfin tang
    Copperband butterflyfish
    Shortnose batfish
    Lionfish
    Red grouper
    Palometa jack
    Spanish hogfish
    Bigeye soldierfish
    French angelfish
    Striated surgeonfish
    Hogfish
    Cuban hogfish
    Pacific creolefish
    Creole wrasse
    Caribbean spiny lobster
    Hairy blenny
    Spotted garden eel
    Yellowtail snapper
    Goliath grouper
    Scaled sardine
    Green moray

    Gulf of Mexico
    White ibis
    Green heron
    Redhead
    Blue winged teal
    Checkered puffer
    Atlantic croaker
    Spotted seatrout
    Hardhead catfish
    Southern flounder
    Rio Grande cichlid
    American alligator
    Southern stingray
    Atlantic stingray
    Common snook
    Red drum
    Sheepshead
    Atlantic tarpon
    Sea mullet
    Lined seahorse
    Peppermint shrimp
    Slate pencil urchin
    Brown shrimp
    Gulf stone crab
    Gulf killifish
    Dwarf seahorse
    Sargassum pipefish
    Atlantic oyster
    Arrow crab
    Orange branching sponge
    Thinstripe hermit crab
    Florida horse conch
    Atlantic horseshoe crab
    Atlantic sergeant major
    Striped burrfish
    Pigfish
    French grunt
    Gulf toadfish
    Spotted scorpionfish
    Florida pompano
    Staghorn coral
    Mushroom coral
    Blue chromis
    Royal gramma
    Sharpnose goby
    White shrimp
    Tricolor anemone
    Molly miller
    Atlantic blue tang
    Harlequin bass
    Reef butterflyfish
    Red spotted hawkfish
    Atlantic blue crab
    Feather duster worm
    Atlantic needlefish
    Green moray
    Gray angelfish
    Squirrelfish
    Atlantic spadefish
    Orange cup coral
    Red and yellow gorgonian
    Flamefish
    Sydney cardinalfish
    Red snapper
    Atlantic tarpon
    Black drum
    Crevalle jack
    Nurse shark
    Green sea turtle
    Yellowtail snapper
    Porkfish
    French angelfish
    Spanish hogfish
    Lookdown
    Gray triggerfish
    Epaulette shark
    Yellow tang
    Flame angelfish
    Lemon chromis
    Chocolate chip sea star
    Whitespotted bamboo shark
    Ocellaris clown fish
    Longhorn cowfish
    Horn shark
    Freckled porcupinefish
    Whitespotted filefish
    Black triggerfish
    Mangrove snapper
    Atlantic moon jelly
    Atlantic sea nettle
    Giant Pacific octopus
    Upside down jelly
    Pacific bat star
    Giant green anemone
    Painted anemone
    Shiner perch
    New Zealand cushion star

    Outdoor exhibits
    Common bottlenose dolphin
    North American river otter
    Loggerhead sea turtle
    Green sea turtle
    Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle
    American alligator
    Ocelot
    Cownose ray
    Atlantic stingray
     
  2. Great Argus

    Great Argus Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Nice list, some interesting species there. Any idea if they still have the rescued frigatebird?
     
  3. David Peden

    David Peden Well-Known Member

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    Didn't see it while I was there, so I don't believe they do. They also had a rescued American white pelican for a while too, but he was gone as well. They redid its enclosure and were keeping their two toed sloth in there until her passing.
     
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    Great Argus Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    So either kept bts or gone then, wonder which.