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

[David Peden]

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

 

[Great Argus]

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

 

[David Peden]

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

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.

 

[Great Argus]

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.

So either kept bts or gone then, wonder which.