Indianapolis Zoo Indianapolis Full Species List 6-12-2023

Bactrian Deer

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It’s been a while, hasn’t it?
Some species are behind the scenes they include but are not limited to…
  • Common Chimpanzee (7)
  • Ring-Tailed Lemur 2.0 (Planned to be transported out)
  • Marabou Stork
Any questions or comments I will happily answer and confirm.:)

So now for the list…


Oceans

1. California Sea Lion, Grey Seal

2. Smooth Dogfish Shark, Cownose Ray, Black Durgon, Lookdown, Saddleback Butterflyfish, Harlequin Sweetlips

3. Coral Hogfish, Smallmouth Grunt, Red Sea Sailfin Tang, Saddleback Butterflyfish, Powder Blue Tang, Pennant Butterflyfish, Asfur Butterflyfish, Shortnose Unicornfish, Orange Shoulder Tang, Yellow Tang, Tomato Clownfish, Lemonpeel Angelfish, Green Moray Eel, Goldtail Damselfish, Yellow Banded Angelfish, Flame Hawkfish, Black Durgon, Raccoon Butterflyfish, Bignose Unicornfish, Atlantic Spadefish (unsigned but confirmed by magazine)

4. Lionfish

5. Cownose Ray, Smooth Dogfish Shark, Southern Stingray

6. Coral, Zooxanthellae Algae

7. Grunt Sculpin, Barnacles

8. Goby, Pistol Shrimp

9. Bat Star, Blood Star

10. Coral Hogfish, Cleaner Shrimp

11. Keyhole Limpet, Green Sea Urchin

12. Anemone, Clownfish

13. Crimson Anemone, Candy, Striped Shrimp

14. Blackwedged Butterflyfish, Flame Hawkfish, Unidentified Starfish

15. Pot-Bellied Seahorse

16. Ocellaris Clownfish, Queen Angelfish, Sea Urchin sp.

17. Yellow Tang, Flame Angelfish, Several unidentified coral, White-Bonnet Anemonefish?, Banggai Cardinal-Fish, Unidentified fish

18. Gentoo Penguin, Southern Rockhopper Penguin, King Penguin

19. Lion-Tailed Macaque

20. Pacific Walrus (Under renovation)

21. Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin

Deserts

1. Rhinoceros Iguana, Great Plated Lizard, Burmese Star Tortoise, Mali Spiny-Tailed Lizard

2. Blue-Tongued Skink, Island Bearded Dragon, Grand Cayman Blue Iguana, Leopard Tortoise, Radiated Tortoise, Australian Snake-Necked Turtle

3. Colorado Toad

4. Egyptian Tortoise, Great Plated Lizard

5. Slender-Tailed Meerkat

6. Sand Cat

7. Chuckwalla, Bearded Dragon, Radiated Tortoise

8. Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake

9. Eyelash Viper

10. Mexican Black Kingsnake

11. Taylor’s Cantil

12. Gila Monster

13. Cape Cobra

14. Jamaican Boa

15. Aruba Island Rattlesnake

16. Zebra Spitting Cobra

17. Santa Catalina Island Rattlesnake

18. Spotted Python

19. Banded Rock Rattlesnake

20. Brazilian Rainbow Boa

21. Burmese Python

22. Black Mamba

23. Green Mamba

24. Cottonmouth

25. Copperhead

26. Timber Rattlesnake

27. Reticulated Python

28. Northern Spider Tortoise

Forests

1. Bornean or Sumatran Orangutan

2. Bornean or Sumatran Orangutan

3. Bornean Orangutan, Sumatran Orangutan

4. American Alligator

5. Orinoco Crocodile

6. Red Kangaroo, Little Corella Cockatoo, Goffin’s Cockatoo, Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo, Citron-Crested Cockatoo, Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo, Elenora Cockatoo, Salmon-Crested Cockatoo, Yellow-Crested Cockatoo

7. Alaskan Brown Bear

8. Blue-and-Yellow Macaw, Scarlet Macaw, Great Green Macaw, Green-Winged Macaw, Military Macaw, Blue-Throated Macaw, Hyacinth Macaw

9. White-Handed Gibbon

10. Amur Tiger

11. Amur Tiger

12. Red Panda

Flights of Fancy

1. Chilean Flamingo, American Flamingo

2. Budgierar Cockatiel

3. Arctic Fox

4. Black-capped Lory, Red Lory, Marigold Lorikeet, Red-collared Lorikeet, Coconut Lorikeet

5. Crested Coua, Blue-Bellied Roller, Vulturine Guineafowl, Rock Hyrax, Taveta Golden Weaver, Crested Wood Partridge, Superb Starling, Helmeted Guineafowl, Green Woodhoopoe, Yellow-Billed Hornbill

Plains

1. Grant’s Zebra, Greater Kudu, White-Bearded Gnu, Rüppell’s Griffon Vulture, Common Ostrich

2. Dama Gazelle, Reticulated Giraffe

3. Southern White Rhino

4. Southeast African Lion

5. Southeast African Lion (side cage)

6. Guinea Baboon

7. African Bush Elephant (Tembo Camp)

8. African Bush Elephant

9. African Bush Elephant

10. South African Cheetah

11. South African Cheetah

12. Common Warthog, Cape Porcupine

13. Blue-Bellied Roller, Yellow-Billed Hornbill, Helmeted Guineafowl, East African Grey Crownes Crane
 
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I visited many behind the scenes areas some species include:
  • Frilled Lizard
  • Northern Spider Tortoise
  • Baja Blue Rock Lizard
  • Mali Uromaytx
  • Stella Agama
  • Northern Bobwhite Quail
  • Monitor (unidentified)
  • Woma Python
  • Spotted Python
  • African Pancake Tortoise
  • Spotted Turtle
  • Madagascan Hissing Cockroach
  • Blue-Tongued Skink
  • Toco Toucan
  • American Crow
  • Black Vulture
 
I visited many behind the scenes areas some species include:
  • Frilled Lizard
  • Northern Spider Tortoise
  • Baja Blue Rock Lizard
  • Mali Uromaytx
  • Stella Agama
  • Northern Bobwhite Quail
  • Monitor (unidentified)
  • Woma Python
  • Spotted Python
  • African Pancake Tortoise
  • Spotted Turtle
  • Madagascan Hissing Cockroach
  • Blue-Tongued Skink
  • Toco Toucan
  • American Crow
  • Black Vulture
I forgot to mention the following:
  • Honduran Milk Snake
  • Bearded Dragon
 
Hello all! With the use of resources via the zoo and hours of looking at fish tanks I have compiled a full, complete list of every animal at the Oceans in the zoo!

Sorry I didn’t give scientific names if you don’t mind.


Oceans:
  • Eel Tank
    • Arabian Angelfish 0.0.3
    • Bluegridled Angelfish 0.0.1
    • Flame Angelfish 0.0.1 total
    • Lemonpeel Angelfish 0.0.3
    • Yellowbanded Angelfish 0.0.1
    • Atlantic Spadefish 0.0.20 total
    • Black Durgon 0.0.2
    • Blackbelt Hogfish 0.0.3 total
    • Barberfish 0.0.2
    • Pennant Butterflyfish 0.0.2
    • Raccoon Butterflyfish 0.0.1
    • Saddleback Butterflyfish 0.0.1
    • Spotfin Butterflyfish 0.0.4
    • Tahitian Butterflyfish 0.0.1
    • Saddleback Clownfish 0.0.3
    • Tomato Clownfish 0.0.3
    • Goldtail Damselfish 0.0.3
    • Flame Hawkfish 0.0.2 total
    • Glassy Sweeper 0.0.1
    • Green Moray Eel 0.0.1
    • Harlequin Sweetlips 0.0.1
    • Neon Goby 0.0.9
    • Smith’s Blenny 0.0.1
    • Spotted Moray 0.0.2
    • Bignose Unicornfish 0.0.2
    • Desjardin Tang 0.0.2
    • Hepatus Tang 0.0.1
    • Orange Band Surgeonfish 0.0.2
    • Powderblue Surgeonfish 0.0.6
    • Powderbrown Tang 0.0.2
    • Shortnosed Unicorn Tang 0.0.2
    • Sleek Unicorn Tang 0.0.1
    • Twotone Tang 0.0.2
  • Shark/Ray Tank
    • Atlantic Spadefish (when they get larger)
    • Lookdown 0.0.43
    • Planehead Filefish 0.0.44
    • Cownose Ray 8.2 total
  • Touch Tank
    • Coral Catshark 2.0
    • Cownose Ray
    • Dusky Smooth-Hound 9.0
    • Epaulette Shark 6.0
    • Southern Stingray 1.1
  • Lionfish Tank
    • Red Lionfish 0.0.6
    • Smallmouth Grunt 0.0.27
  • Tube Tank
    • Bluegridled Angelfish 0.0.1
    • Blackbelt Hogfish
    • Pajama Cardinalfish
    • Ocellaris Clownfish 0.0.9 total
    • Flame Hawkfish
    • Pot-Bellied Seahorse 4.3
    • Striped Blenny 0.0.1 total
    • Sunrise Dottyback 0.0.1
    • Yellow Tang 0.0.6 total
    • Yellow Devilfish 0.0.4 total
    • Chocolate Chip Sea Star 0.0.1
  • Focus Tanks
    • Flame Angelfish
    • Ocellaris Clownfish
    • Yellow Clownfish 0.0.3 total
    • Striped Blenny
    • Yellow Devilfish
    • Clonal Plumose Anemone
    • Crimson Anemone
    • Strawberry Anemone
    • Corkscrew Tentacle Sea Anemone
    • Cactus Coral
    • Candy Cane Coral
    • Cup Coral
    • Horn Coral
    • Leaf Plate Montipora
    • Thick Stem Brain Coral
    • Blue Coral
    • Corky Sea Finger
    • Green Star Polyps
    • Kenya Tree Coral Capnella spp. - 21 species total
    • Leathery Soft Coral
    • Yellow Polyps
    • Giant Red Sea Cucumber 0.0.1
    • Rough Keyhole Limpet 0.0.10
    • Bat Sea Star 0.0.5
    • Black Turban Snail 0.0.4
    • Green Sea Urchin 0.0.5
  • Reef Tank
    • Banggai Cardinalfish
    • Yellow Clownfish
    • Blue Green Chromis 0.0.1
    • Yellow Tang
    • Yellow Devilfish
    • Cactus Coral
    • Cauliflower Coral
    • Cup Coral
    • Horn Coral
    • Leaf Plate Montipora
    • Thick Stem Brain Coral
    • Corky Sea Finger
    • Kenya Tree Coral
    • Leather Coral
    • Leathery Soft Coral
    • Trochus Snail 0.0.3
    • Slate Pencil Sea Urchin 0.0.4
  • Undetermined
    • Lemon Damsel 0.0.1
    • Sapphire Damselfish 0.0.1
  • Other
    • Foxface Rabbitfish (will be moved to EEL TANK) 0.0.1
    • Sharpnose Puffer (will be moved to TUBE TANK) 0.0.1
    • Staghorn Coral
  • Marine Mammals/Birds
    • Common Bottlenose Dolphin 7.3
    • Long-Tailed Macaque 9.31
    • Pacific Walrus 1.0
  • Penguins
    • Gentoo Penguin 14.14
    • Southern Rockhopper Penguin 6.9
    • King Penguin ?.?.?
  • Seal Paddock
    • California Sea Lion 1.4 with 2 (not these) on loan
    • Gray Seal 2.0
 
It seems unappreciated mostly that the Indianapolis Zoo has a full aquarium as part of its facility when you consider the marine mammals, penguins, and Ocean fish and invertebrate collection combined. That species collection is kind of a mashup of SeaWorld and a SeaLife.
 
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