Houston Zoo Houston Zoo Species list

[Cera]

Visited on 6/29/24

Galapagos
California Sea Lion
Galapagos Giant Tortoise
Grand Cayman Blue Iguana
Humboldt Penguin

Wortham World of Primates
Ring-tailed Lemur and Madagascar Big Headed Turtle
Black and Gold Howler Monkey
Guinanan Toucanets
Azure Winged Magpie
Crowned Lemur and Coquerel’s Sifaka
Patas Monkey
Schmidt’s Red-tailed Monkey
Allen’s Swamp Monkey and De Brazza’s Monkey
Northern White Cheeked Gibbon
Siamang and Patas Monkey
Bornean Orangutan, Malaysian Giant Terrapin, Painted River Terrapin, Fly River Turtle, and Yellow-headed Temple Turtle

Texas Wetlands
Bald Eagle
Whooping Crane
American Alligator

Pantanal
Baird’s Tapir, Capybara, Giant Anteater, Greater Rhea, Coscoroba Swan, Southern Screamer
Jaguar
Blue-Billed Currasow and Blue-Throated Macaw
Giant River Otter
Emerald Tree Boa
Unspecified Dart Frog sp.
Green Anaconda
Yellow-Spotted River Turtle
Black-and-Gold Howler Monkey, Golden Lion Tamarin, and Red Rumped Agouti
Savanna Aviary:
Southern Lapwing, Wattled Currasow, White-faced Whistling Duck, Ringed Teal, Black-faced Ibis, Green Oropendola, Blue-crowned Motmot, Andean Cock-of-the-rock, and Golden Conure
Waterbird Aviary:
Red-Capped Cardinal, Sunbittern, Ringed Teal, Roseate Spoonbill, Yellow-rumped Cacique, Silver-beaked Tanager, Giant Wood Rail, Guira Cuckoo, Blue-grey Tanager, and Argentine Lake Duck

Children’s Zoo
Red Panda
Black Vulture
Turkey
Bobcat
Eurasian Eagle-Owl
North American River Otter
Brown Pelican and Ruddy Duck
Banded Mongoose
Houston Toad
Barton Springs Salamander
Giant Madagascar Day Gecko
Sandfish
Mexican Flathead lizard
Texas Rat Snake
Rose Bellied Lizard
Louisiana Milksnake
Seba's Short Tailed Bat
Burrowing Owl
Leopard Tortoise

African Forest
Masai Giraffe and Ostrich
Southern White Rhinoceros
Chimpanzee
Western Lowland Gorilla and Red River Hog

Small Cats
Cheetah
African Painted Dog
Ocelot
Fossa
Clouded Leopard
Eastern Bongo, Southern Ground Hornbill, and Yellow Backed Duiker
Komodo Dragon
American Black Bear
Ankole-Watusi Cattle
Plains Zebra
Blue Duiker, Eastern Crowned Guineafowl, Sulcata, and Blue Crane
Cape Vulture and Hooded Vulture
Komodo Dragon
Cougar
Malayan Tiger

McNair Elephant Enclosure
Asian Elephant

Reptile House
Anegada Island Iguana
Crocodile Monitor
Reticulated Python
Chuckwalla, Baja Blue Rock Lizard, Box Turtle sp. Spiny Lizard sp.
Jamaican Iguana
Northern Caiman Lizard
Lesser Sunda Python
Fiji Banded Iguana
Komodo Dragon
Mexican Beaded Lizard
Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
Brazilian Lancehead
Black-Breasted Leaf Turtle
Black Tree Monitor
Boelan’s Python
Garden Tree Boa
African Dwarf Crocodile
Red-tailed Green Ratsnake
King Cobra
Ricord’s Anole
Unspecific Leaf-tailed Gecko sp.
Rowley’s Palm Pitviper
Philippine Tree Skink
Santa Catalina Rattlesnake
Emerald Alligator Lizard
Greek Tortoise
Radiated Tortoise
Black Mamba and Western Green Mamba
Monocellate Cobra
Gulf Coast Ribbon Snake
Unspecified Water Snake sp.
Cottonmouth
Aruba Rattlesnake
Speckled Rattlesnake
Copperhead, Canebrake Rattlesnake and Texas Ratsnake
Gulf Coast Toad, Houston Toad, Green Anole, Green Tree Frog and Gray Tree Frog
Desert Horned Viper
Gaboon Viper
Sidewinder
Green Anaconda
Pancake Tortoise
Everglades Ratsnake
Brown Tree Snake
Mangshan Viper
Egyptian Tortoise
Gila Monster
Arizona Black Rattlesnake
Prehensile Tailed Skink
Lance-headed Rattlesnake
Veiled Chameleon
Eyelash Viper and Mexican Jumping Viper

Carruth Natural Encounters
Meerkat
Northern Snake-necked Turtle
Asian Small-Clawed Otter
Linnaeus’s Two-Toed Sloth, Indian Star Tortoise, Pied Imperial Pigeon, White-Faced Saki, and Pygmy Marmoset
Prehensile Tailed Porcupine
Houston Toad
Naked Mole Rat and Damara Mole Rat
Common Collared Lizard

 

[DavidBrown]

Aren't there several species of fish and marine invertebrates in the Galapagos exhibit also?

 

[King of Komodo Dragons]

No offense, but there are quite a few species missing from your list. the Bug House and basically all of the zoo's fish/aquarium species for starters. Any particular reason why you excluded them?

 

[Cera]

I personally don't keep track of fish and invertebrates in zoos I visit, I apologize for not stating that

 

[Dassie rat]

Houston Zoo should change the name of the 'Small Cats' Section

 

[Moebelle]

Houston Zoo should change the name of the 'Small Cats' Section

The section is referred to as Cats, Hoofed Amimals & More.

 

[ralph]

Do you have the scientific name for the Rose Bellied Lizard?

These species are listed on ZTL, but not on your list.

Are these gone/off-show?

- Speartail leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus ebenaui)

- Ashy pitviper (Craspedocephalus puniceus)
- Armstrong's dusky rattlesnake (Crotalus armstrongi)
- Trans-Pecos rat snake (Bogertophis subocularis)

- Black-spotted newt (Notophthalmus meridionalis)
- Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus zeteki)
- Spurrell's tree frog (Agalychnis spurrelli)
- Wallace's flying frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus)

 

[biggest_dreamer]

Do you have the scientific name for the Rose Bellied Lizard?

These species are listed on ZTL, but not on your list.

Are these gone/off-show?

- Speartail leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus ebenaui)

- Ashy pitviper (Craspedocephalus puniceus)
- Armstrong's dusky rattlesnake (Crotalus armstrongi)
- Trans-Pecos rat snake (Bogertophis subocularis)

- Black-spotted newt (Notophthalmus meridionalis)
- Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus zeteki)
- Spurrell's tree frog (Agalychnis spurrelli)
- Wallace's flying frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus)

I was at the zoo a few days after OP (July 3) and did not record any of these species, though I will add the caveat that I am phobic of snakes so I skip them and can’t comment there, and that I breezed through the children’s zoo so I missed the rose-bellied lizard. Overall my list seems to line up with theirs, though.

 

[King of Komodo Dragons]

Do you have the scientific name for the Rose Bellied Lizard?

These species are listed on ZTL, but not on your list.

Are these gone/off-show?

- Speartail leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus ebenaui)

- Ashy pitviper (Craspedocephalus puniceus)
- Armstrong's dusky rattlesnake (Crotalus armstrongi)
- Trans-Pecos rat snake (Bogertophis subocularis)

- Black-spotted newt (Notophthalmus meridionalis)
- Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus zeteki)
- Spurrell's tree frog (Agalychnis spurrelli)
- Wallace's flying frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus)

Most of these species I have recorded from my last visit in 2021, but there is a chance they are no longer there as it has been a few years, I am planning a trip for early November so I will see If I can confirm if they are still on display.

 

[ralph]

Thanks @biggest_dreamer & @King of Komodo Dragons

I'd be interested in any updates from early november as I might have a chance at visiting myself in the second half of november.

 

[Cera]

Do you have the scientific name for the Rose Bellied Lizard?

Sceloporus variabilis

Are these gone/off-show?

- Speartail leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus ebenaui)

- Ashy pitviper (Craspedocephalus puniceus)
- Armstrong's dusky rattlesnake (Crotalus armstrongi)
- Trans-Pecos rat snake (Bogertophis subocularis)

- Black-spotted newt (Notophthalmus meridionalis)
- Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus zeteki)
- Spurrell's tree frog (Agalychnis spurrelli)
- Wallace's flying frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus)

I saw none of these, and multiple sections of the reptile house were blocked off with signage remove, presumably for renovations and changes

 

[King of Komodo Dragons]

Thanks @biggest_dreamer & @King of Komodo Dragons

I'd be interested in any updates from early november as I might have a chance at visiting myself in the second half of november.

I just visited yesterday, all amphibians besides the Houston Toads are off display in the reptile house. (There are still Anthony's Dart Frogs in Pantanal and Barton Springs Salamander in the children's Zoo aswell). Only the Ashy Pit-Viper was on display of the species you were interested in. It was in the enclosure on the left side of the reticulated python habitat when you first enter, it shares its habitat with the Sri Lankan Green Pit-Viper.