Unfortunately there isn't a complete species list I can find to post the new species in, so that'll be on my to do list next time. So I might as well post a majority of them here.
According to this article, a director says that
127 total species live in the Tropical Reef, with
95 species being brand new to the Zoo. "Some do live behind the scenes" she says, I'm guessing referring to a majority of the species that will be in the living reef exhibit, and some others that will join the current exhibits down the road.
Elasmobranchs (Sharks and Rays)
In the "Outer Reef":
-Zebra Sharks
-Black-Tip Reef Shark
-White-Tip Reef Sharks
-Nurse Sharks
-Grey Reef Sharks
-Aussie / Honeycomb Whiptail Ray
In the "Lagoon":
-Epaulette Sharks
-White Spotted Bamboo Sharks
The zoo did show pictures of Blue Spotted Stingrays and I believe Atlantic Stingrays from the old 'Stingray Cove' that moved over to the Lagoon, but since then have been moved out and are unsigned. Perhaps they'll be moved back in later.
Invertebrates
In the "Blue Hole":
-American Spiny Lobster
In the "Tropical Shallows" Touch Pool:
-Skunk Cleaner Shrimp
-Cerith Snail
-Burrowing Urchin
-Decorator Urchin
-Yellow Mesh Sea Star
-Blue Linckia Sea Star
-Black&Pink Sea Cucumber
-Prickly Black Sea Cucumber
Tropical Fish
In the "Tropical Shallows" Tank that is right next to the touch pool:
-Green Spotted Puffer (Does have a name but I can't recall what it is)
-A school of Coral Catfish
-A school of Zebra Dartfish
-A school of Long-spine Cardinalfish
In the "Lagoon":
-Fivestripe Wrasse
-Moon Wrasse
-Bluehead Wrasse
-Red Coris Wrasse
-Blue Streak Cleaner Wrasse
-Orange Lined Triggerfish
-Wedgetail Triggerfish
-Clown Triggerfish
-Porcupine Pufferfish
-Naso Tang
-Yellow Tang
-Blue Hippo Tang
-Oriental Sweetlips
-Coral Rabbitfish
-Foxface Rabbitfish
-Tomato Clownfish
-Bicolor Goatfish
-Manybar Goatfish
-Monocle Bream
-Threadfin Butterflyfish
-Pearl Scale Butterflyfish
-Racoon Butterflyfish
-Lattice Butterflyfish
-Dusky Butterflyfish
-Scribbled Angelfish
-Bicolor Angelfish
In the "Blue Hole" the tank isn't signed with any species profiles which is kind of a bummer, and with the lighting it is hard to make out some of the species. Here's my best recollection of what I could identify:
-Pink Square Anthias (Males and Females)
-Porcupine Puffer
-Bannerfish
-Annularis Angelfish
-Bigeye Soldierfish
-Squirrelfish sp. (Possibly the Giant Squirrelfish?)
-Harlequin Tusk (Wrasse)
-Saddled Wrasse (?)
-Powder Brown Tang
-Racoon Butteflyfish
In the "Outer Reef": (on a side note, one thing I loved about the signage was they placed them above each window that shows a specific area. So for example, the window with the artificial reef in view displays the names for all of the species that hang out within the corals.
-Pinktail Triggerfish
-Barrier Reef Chromis
-Blue Streak Cleaner Wrasse
-Emperor Red Snapper
-Potato Grouper (named Tater)
-Chocholate Tang
-Eye-Stripe Tang
-Sailfin Tang
-Clown Tang
-Blue Devil Damselfish
-Sergeant Major Damselfish
-Blue Sapphire Damselfish (wasn't signed but I did see a few)
-Orbicular Batfish
-Golden Trevally
-Yellowtail Fusilier
Not every species is signed, the smaller species I noticed don't have signs. I will throw in the latin names for all of them once I make a complete PDZA species list.
