Here is the key again: If the species/subspecies is bolded, that zoo is the sole holder of the species in Europe. If the species is underlined, it is one of two holders in Europe. Hopefully this system emphasizes the particular rarities and gives an idea of the different 'levels'.
Second half of Austria:
Burgfalknerei Oberkampfenberg
A fairly small collection only housing birds of prey, but it has a couple of nice species and subspecies, including two Peregrine falcon subspecies rarely found on the continent.
Birds: Eleonora's falcon,
Peale's falcon,
Siberian goshawk,
Tundra peregrine falcon.
Reptilienzoo Happ
Another small collection, this time housing reptiles. A couple of small rarities, both vipers.
Reptiles: Hungarian meadow viper, Russian blunt-nosed viper.
Zoo Schmiding
A larger collection, with some really interesting rarities. It is notably the sole holder of a species of marmoset and along with Walsrode the only place on the continent you can see a Horned screamer.
Mammals: Black and white tassel-ear marmoset
Birds: Abbott's sulphur crested cockatoo, Ambon red lory, Diademed amazon, Goliath heron,
Horned screamer,
Indian white-headed griffon vulture, Mallee ringneck, Martial eagle, Northern mealy amazon, Mount Goliath Papuan lory, Red-browed amazon, Red-winged parrot (NS),
Silver-eared laughingthrush,
Yellow-faced parrotlet.
Reptiles: Collared flat lizard, Common flat lizard, Splendid japalure, Tanimbar blue-tongued skink.
Fish: Black velvet angelfish, Caerulean damsel, Lesson's thicklip, Lubbock's wrasse, Magenta dottyback,
Onespot demoiselle, Snowball pleco.
In summary,
26 rarities,
2 of which are unique in Europe and
5 more only found in a couple of collections on the continent.
Zoo Linz
Another fairly small collection, with a few nice rarities, particularly the bluebonnet.
Eastern bluebonnet, Eastern yellow-billed hornbill, Longnose leopard lizard.
Falknerei Burg Obernberg
Tiny collection, with only a single species, which just happens to be a rarity.
Southern Harris's hawk
Reptilienzoo Nockalm
A fairly large collection comprising 120 species of reptile - however, it holds a stunning 75 rarities, meaning over 60% of its collection is held in a very small number of zoos in Europe - quite an impressive figure. It thus appears to be well worth visiting for snake enthusiasts in particular.
Reptiles: African bush viper, Alpine viper,
Arabian cobra, Ashy pitviper, Arizona black rattlesnake,
Baja California rattlesnake,
Balkan cross adder, Banded rock rattlesnake, Basilisk rattlesnake, Black-necked spitting cobra,
Bourret's pitviper,
Brown forest cobra, Cane brake rattlesnake, Cascabel rattlesnake, Caucasus viper,
Central African forest cobra, Central Italian asp viper, Chaco lancehead, Chinese cobra, Chinese habu,
Common water cobra,
Coronado Island rattlensake, Cyclades viper,
Djampea Island viper,
Egyptian saw-scaled viper,
Four-lined ratsnake (NS), Gade's viper,
Godman's montane pitviper, Great Basin gopher snake, Gumprecht's green pitviper,
Hopi rattlesnake, Indonesian cobra,
Kramer's pitviper,
Malayan pitviper, Mangrove pitviper,
McGregor's pitviper, Mexican black-tailed rattlesnake, Mexican lance-headed rattlesnake, Mexican moccasin, Northern black-tailed rattlesnake,
Northern copperhead, Moroccan cobra,
Northern Pacific rattlesnake, Nubian spitting cobra, Palestine saw-scaled viper, Northwest Neotropical rattlesnake,
Palestinian viper, Peters's cobra,
Philippine habu,
Philippine cobra,
Prairie rattlesnake (NS),
Red diamond rattlesnake (NS), Ring-necked spitting cobra,
Rosario rattlesnake, Sahara rock viper,
San Bernardino mountain kingsnake, San Pedro mountain kingsnake,
Sicilian viper,
Slender hognose viper,
Sonoran gopher snake,
Southern Pacific rattlesnake, Southwestern speckled rattlesnake,
Spanish asp,
Striped house snake, Sumatran spitting cobra, Tamaulipan rock rattlesnake, Terciopelo, Timber rattlesnake (NS), Trans Pecos copperhead, Transcaucasian long-nosed viper,
Twin-spotted rattlesnake,
Venezuela lancehead, Wagner's viper,
West African carpet viper,
Western barred spitting cobra.
In summary,
75 rarities, of which
19 are unique in Europe and
16 more only found in a couple of zoos on the continent.
Salzburg - Haus der Natur
Another reptile and fish collection with a several nice rarities, inside a museum housing taxidermies of many more species.
Reptiles: Flat-tailed gecko,
Jameson's mamba (NSS), Sakishima green lizard.
Fish: Banded ctenopoma,
Caneva's blenny, False puffer, Fuzzy filefish,
Green's moon tetra,
Lake chub, Pastel ringwrasse,
Redspotted chalcous, Steinitz's goby.
Tiergarten Hellbrunn, Salzburg
Fairly few rarities for a zoo of decent size, but a few nice ones nonetheless.
Mammals: Kalahari lion.
Reptiles: Firethroat anolis
Amphibians: Ruby-eyed tree frog, Brongersma's toad
Fish: January tetra
Welt der Gifte, Salzburg
A fairly well-publicised collection on this website due to the obvious connections, this collection also has a very high rarity to species count ratio, with some really nice species.
Reptiles: Basilisk rattlesnake,
Eastern black-tailed rattlesnake, Gumprecht's green pitviper, Palestine saw-scaled viper, Ruthven's kingsnake, Southwestern speckled rattlesnake.
Amphibians: African common toad,
Algerian ribbed newt, Roughskin newt.
Fish: Least killifish, Spotted Congo puffer.
Museum Niederoesterreich
A small collection with a few small rarities, including the Danube salmon or Huchen.
Amphibians: Alpine crested newt, Danube crested newt
Fish: Huchen (Danube salmon).
Vogelpark Turnersee
A surprisingly intriguing collection, with a large number of rarities including the Coleto, the Cayenne jay and the Lineated barbet.
Birds: Ashy woodpigeon, Black-faced go-away bird, Black-throated magpie jay,
Blue-headed wood dove, Brown lory, Brown-breasted barbet, Brush bronzewing,
Cayenne jay, Coleto, Common bluebonnet, Cordilleran parakeet, Crimson-rumped toucanet, Diademed amazon, Curl-crested aracari, Dusky turtle-dove, Erckel's francolin, Flores lorikeet, Golden crested myna, Iris lorikeet,
Lineated barbet, Luzon hornbill, Magpie shrike,
Moluccan king-parrot, Mombasa speckled mousebird,
Moskowski's king-parrot, Ornate lorikeet, Pale-headed lorikeet, Pink-headed imperial pigeon,
Purple-bellied lory,
Red-breasted toucan, Red-spectacled amazon, Red-throated parakeet, Scaly-breasted lorikeet, Scaly-naped pigeon,
Silver-tipped imperial pigeon, Slender-billed parakeet, Splendid glossy starling, Southern pied hornbill, Stella's lorikeet,
Tres Marias amazon,
Wattled guan, Western black lory, Western bronze-naped pigeon, Western piping hornbill,
White-thighed hornbill, Yellow-faced myna,
Yellow-footed green-pigeon,
Yellow-fronted parrot, Yellowish-streaked lory (NSS)
In summary,
49 species, of which
4 are unique in Europe and
9 more are only found in a couple of collection on the continent.
Tierwelt Herbenstein
A few nice rarities here at this fairly small place.
Mammals: Missouri cougar
Birds: African silverbill, Erckel's francolin.
Tiergarten Wels
A fairly large collection, but only a couple of rarities.
Birds: Eurasian nutcracker, Eastern yellow-billed hornbill
Wien - Haus des Meeres
A very large collection with some really interesting species, particularly on the turtle and small fish front. It is worth noting that a number of goodeid and allotoca species are kept off-show currently, so will not be listed, but there are a number of unique species there as well. I also cannot guarantee that I have all the fish rarities in the list below, since there are so many species it would take a day to trawl through them. However I can pretty much guarantee all the unique species are in the list below, not including the off-show species as mentioned above.
Mammals: Northern narrow-striped mongoose, Spix's saddle-backed tamarin.
Birds: Eastern yellow-billed hornbill, Red-billed buffalo weaver,
Slender-billed red-winged starling.
Reptiles: African dwarf mud turtle, Aruba island rattlesnake, Asian yellow pond turtle, Black-knobbed mud turtle, Branderhorst's snapping turtle,
Central American river turtle, Common death adder, Common toadheaded turtle, Gariau forest dragon, Gibba toadhead turtle, Incised wood turtle, Indian black turtle,
Ivory Coast mud turtle, Loggerhead musk turtle, Oldham's leaf turtle, Olive tree skink, Parson's chameleon, Red-cheeked mud turtle, Sakashima green lizard, Striped mud turtle, Sulawesi water skink.
Amphibians: Anatolian newt, Coronated treefrog, Lake Urmia newt, Riobamba marsupial frog, Solomon Islands eyelash frog, White-spotted reed frog, Yucatan casque-headed tree frog.
Fish: Ambon damsel, American white-spotted filefish, Atlantic chub mackerel,
Banded mogurnda,
Bannertail catfish,
Black cardinalfish, Blue-barred parrotfish,
Brichard's synodontis,
Congo eyespot cichlid,
Deccan mahseer,
Dusky tilefish, Evers' ricefish,
Feather-faced talking catfish,
Filament finned prawn goby,
Fingered dragonet,
Geometric moray,
Giant hawkfish,
Gold ring danio, Golden Congo tetra, Golden sweeper,
Guyana flag cichlid,
Grey grunt,
Honeycomb filefish,
Horseman's corydoras,
Indian ricefish,
Indigo barb, Indigo hamlet,
Italian chub, Japanese prickleback,
Lake Candidius chub, Lake Inle danio, Lattamonni,
Lipstick tetra,
Marbled spinefoot,
Marbled swordtail,
Marbled talking catfish,
Matana medaka, Melon barb, Monterrey platyfish,
Oriental flying gurnard, Pacific creole-fish,
Painted rainbowfish,
Panamic soldierfish,
Red stripe barb,
Redband parrotfish,
Sakarya toothcarp, Sargassum trigger,
Sharptooth tetra,
Short-lined pyrrhulina, Slippery dick, Silver distichodus,
Spotted onesided livebearer,
Starry grouper,
Stymphalia minnow, Swellshark,
Taiwan goby, Tope shark,
Xingu Krobia cichlid,
Zodiac loach.
In summary,
92 species, of which
25 are unique in Europe and
20 more can only be found in a couple of colllections on the continent.
Zoologischer Garten in den Blumengarten - Wien
Only a single rarity:
Oriental white-eye
Tiergarten Schoenbrunn - Wien
Famed as one of the greatest European zoos and the world's oldest zoo, the collection in fact has surprisingly few mammalian rarities in particular. While researching and compiling the lists, I found that many of the species held by Schoenbrunn were held by 8-12 collections in Europe and thus were not eligible for rarity 'status'. This meant that they had a surprisingly low total in the end despite the quality of the zoo and its collection. Please note that, again, due to the high numbers of fish species held, the list is not entirely complete in that class. Another interesting PS is that much of the reptile collection either disappeared or went off-show in 2013, meaning that the list of reptile rarities is greatly reduced unfortunately - the same situation goes for the fish and amphibians. Finally, this year, officials at Vienna's airport confiscated a large number of chameleons from montane Kenya, so a number of small chameleon species are present on the list. However, please note that it is not certain these will be on-show or even stay at the collection so their place on the list is dubious.
Mammals: Egypt hedgehog
Birds: Bananaquit,
Black-billed amazon,
Blue-backed manakin,
Blue-winged pitta, Eastern paradise-whydah, Green-mantled tanager,
Grey-headed oliveback,
Long-tailed broadbill, Orange-bellied leafbird, Mexican white-fronted amazon, Northern rockhopper penguin, Oriental white-eye,
Ruby-throated bulbul, Violaceous euphonia, White-breasted woodswallow, White-fronted bee-eater.
Reptiles: Armadillo lizard,
Carter's rock gecko,
Common ameiva,
Green pygmy chameleon,
Kenya stumptail chameleon,
Matschie's two horned chameleon, Nguru pygmy chameleon,
Northern river terrapin,
Spiny-sided chameleon, West Indian iguana, Wavy chameleon, Yellow fan-fingered gecko.
Amphibians: Black spotted rock frog, Little rock frog.
Fish: Cape kurper,
Checkered pupfish, Mudminnow,
San Ignacio pupfish,
Shukoray cichlid,
Six-banded tiger barb,
Smallscale archerfish, White-spotted boxfish.
In summary,
40 rarities, of which
8 are unique in Europe and a further
11 can only be seen at a couple of institutions on the continent.
And that is Austria completed.
Below is a bubble diagram to show to location and magnitude of each collection in terms of rarities.
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Next up will be Belarus, Croatia and Cyprus.
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