Audubon Aquarium of the Americas List Of Species On Exhibit 4/4/18

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This is an attempt to list every species on exhibit at the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans, Louisiana during my visit on 4-4-18. I am including species for which there is a sign on each exhibit, and using the named zones according to the general order in which they are encountered along the visitor path. This list may be of more interest to those already familiar with the aquarium since I am not arranging the species by animal type. I will separate each zone under its own entry for clarity.

GREAT MAYA REEF: (10 Exhibits)
The first exhibit complex is a highly detailed one with a Central American temple ruins theme.

Large-sized wall tank:
Lookdown (unsigned)

Large-sized room tank with walk-through tunnel:
Atlantic Spadefish
Bar Jack
Bluestriped Grunt
Blue Angelfish
Blue Tang
Caribbean Spiny Lobster
Caesar Grunt
Cownose Ray
Doctorfish
French Grunt
Gray Angelfish
Graysby
High-hat
Ladyfish
Lane Snapper
Lookdown
Neon Goby
Ocean Surgeonfish
Porkfish
Queen Angelfish
Saucereye Porgy
Schoolmaster
Sergeant Major
Smallmouth Grunt
Tomtate
White Grunt

Medium-sized round column tank, titled 'Channel':
Blue Striped Grunt
Blue Tang
Doctorfish
Green Moray Eel
Porkfish
Rock Hind
Rough Triggerfish
Spotfin Hogfish

Medium-sized wall tank, titled 'Artificial Reef':
Blue Chromis
Blue Tang
Brown Chromis
Doctorfish
Ocean Surgeonfish
Ridged Slipper Lobster
Rock Beauty Angelfish
Royal Gramma
Silver Jenny
Spanish Slipper Lobster
Spotfin Hogfish

Medium-sized wall tank, titled 'After Dark':
Balloonfish
Blackbar Soldierfish
Chainlink Moray Eel
Sharptail Eel

Medium-sized wall tank, titled 'Grass Beds':
Harlequin Bass
Jackknife Fish
Lookdown

Medium-sized half-round wall tank:
Jawfish

Medium-sized wall tank, titled 'Patch Reef':
Bluehead Wrasse
Molly Miller
Queen Angelfish
Red-spotted Hawkfish
Slipppery Dick Wrasse
Spanish Hogfish

Medium-sized wall tank, titled 'Hidden In Plain Sight':
Spotted Scorpionfish

Medium-sized round column tank:
Lionfish

Exterior

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Taken 4/4/18. This facility is in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana and is part of the Audubon...

Exterior

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Taken 4/4/18. This facility is in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana and is part of the Audubon...

Great Maya Reef - Exhibit With Walk-through Tunnel

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Taken 4/4/18. This facility is in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana and is part of the Audubon...

Great Maya Reef - Channel Tank

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AMAZON RAINFOREST: (7 Exhibits)
The visitor path ascends an escalator or stairs up into the second floor of the aquarium; this exhibit complex is within a large round glass atrium with a soaring roof. A lush landscape of live plants surrounds the path as it encounters detailed habitats set in simulated exposed mudbanks.

Large-sized open-topped tank with 3 viewing windows, titled 'Life In The Big River':
Arapaima
Red Pacu
Redtail Catfish
White-spotted Stingray

Medium-sized open-topped tank with 2 viewing windows, titled 'Shallow Flooded Forest':
Black Tetra
Lemon Tetra
Neon Tetra
Serpae Tetra
Peppered Cory
Silver Hatchetfish

Medium-sized open-topped tank with 2 viewing windows and waterfall, titled 'Fast Moving Stream':
Oscar
Ripsaw Catfish

Medium-sized wall tank, titled 'River's Edge':
Green Anaconda
Striped Headstander

Medium-sized open-topped tank with 2 viewing windows:
Red-bellied Piranha

Small-sized wall tank:
Blue Ram
Cardinal Tetra
Chessboard Cichlid
Panda Catfish
Silver Hatchetfish

Medium-sized open-topped tank with 2 viewing windows:
Unsigned

Amazon Rainforest - Interior

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Amazon Rainforest - 'Fast Moving Stream' Exhibit

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Taken 4/4/18. This facility is in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana and is part of the Audubon...

Amazon Rainforest - Fish Exhibits

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PENGUINS: (1 Exhibit)
The visitor path continues on the second floor of the aquarium into a darker plain contemporary hall.

Large room-sized exhibit viewed through 5 floor-to-ceiling windows, with natural skylighting from behind:
Black-footed Penguin

Black-footed Penguin Exhibit

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PARAKEET POINT: (1 Exhibit)
Adjacent to the aquarium's entry atrium and food court is a small outdoor rooftop terrace enclosed by a steel bar framework. Visitors can go out on the terrace to the:

Medium-sized netted walk-through aviary:
Budgerigar

Parakeet Point

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LIVING IN WATER: (10 Exhibits)
These mostly plain exhibits are all set along one wall in a wide hall.

Medium-sized wall tank, titled 'Living In Color':
Slippery Dick Wrasse
Spotfin Butterflyfish
Spotted Drum

Medium-sized wall tank, titled 'Mata Mata':
Adonis Plecostomus
Leaf Fish
Mata Mata

Medium-sized wall tank, titled 'Electric Eels':
Electric Eel
Silver Dollar

Medium-sized wall tank, titled 'Streamlined':
Borneo Sucker Loach
Burma Border Loach
Butterfly Hillstream Loach
Denison's Barb
Exclamation Barb
Giant Danio
Tweedie's Hillstream Loach

Medium-sized wall tank:
Black Saddleback Clownfish
Blue Hippo Tang
Cinnamon Clownfish
Common Cleaner Wrasse
Percula Clownfish
Pink Skunk Clownfish
Purple Firefish
Ritteri Anemone
Rose Bubble Tip Anemone
Spotted Mandarin

Medium-sized wall tank, titled 'Noisemakers':
French Grunt
Porkfish
Smallmouth Grunt

Medium-sized wall tank, titled 'Squirrel Reef':
High-hat
Squirrelfish
Three-spot Squirrelfish

Medium-sized wall tank, titled 'Home Sweet Home':
Black Crappie
Bluegill
Longear Sunfish

Medium-sized wall tank:
Texas Cichlid

Medium-sized wall tank, titled 'No Motion':
Bangaii Cardinalfish
Copperband Butterfly
Desjardini Sailfin Tang
Green Reef Chromis
Jewel Fairy Basslet
Leather Coral

Living In Water - Interior

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Living In Water - 'Home Sweet Home' and Texas Cichlid Exhibits

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SEAHORSES: (5 Exhibits)
On the other side of the hall from the 'Living In Water' exhibits is this cluster.

2 medium-sized octagonal column tanks:
Lined Seahorse

Medium-sized wall tank:
Yellow Seahorse

Medium-sized wall tank:
Potbelly Seahorse

Medium-sized wall tank:
Multi-banded Pipefish

Seahorses - Sign

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FROGS: (4 Exhibits)
A bright dead-end spur off the wide hall houses these exhibits.

Medium-sized square column terrarium:
Fire Belly Toad
Gray Tree Frog

Medium-sized square column terrarium:
Cane Toad
White's Tree Frog

Medium-sized quarter-round column terrarium:
Blue Dart Frog

Medium-sized wall terrarium:
Amazon Milk Frog
Red Eye Tree Frog
Rummy Nose Tetra
Suriname Toad

Frogs - Interior

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SEA OTTERS: (2 Exhibits)

Medium-sized half-round wall tank, titled 'Deep Grotto':
California Moray Eel

Two-room rocky walled enclosure viewed through floor-to-ceiling windows with underwater views at different heights:
Sea Otter

Sea Otters - Second Half of Sea Otter Exhibit

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TOUCHPOOL: (1 Exhibit)
This single exhibit is tucked in a corner of a plain modern hall.

Medium-sized open-topped shallow rectangular pool:
Cownose Ray

 

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MISSISSIPPI RIVER: (10 Exhibits)
This exhibit complex is housed in a bright partially skylit room with naturalistic exhibits set in a landscape of exposed mudbanks and rocky piles surrounding a simulated swamp shack.

Large-sized open-topped exhibit with 3 viewing windows:
American Alligator ('White Gators')

Medium-sized open-topped exhibit:
Alligator Gar
Blue Catfish
Channel Catfish
Longnose Gar
Spotted Gar

Medium-sized open-topped exhibit:
Bowfin
Flathead Catfish
Freshwater Drum
Largemouth Bass
Western Chicken Turtle

Medium-sized open-topped exhibit:
Black Crappie
Yellow Perch

Elevated boardwalk perch of a simulated swamp cabin:
Red-tailed Hawk (pinioned)

2 small-sized round shallow pools viewed from below:
Turtle (unsigned)

Large-sized wall tank with 3 viewing windows:
American Paddlefish
Common Carp
Flathead Catfish
Lake Sturgeon
Longear Sunfish
Smallmouth Bass
Warmouth

Large-sized open-topped shallow tank with 5 viewing windows:
Gulf Killifish
Lookdown
Mojarra
Oyster Toadfish
Palometa
Spade Fish

Elevated perch on top of rocky slope:
Barred Owl (pinioned)

Mississippi River - American Alligator Exhibit

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Taken 4/4/18. This facility is in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana and is part of the Audubon...

Mississippi River - Interior

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Taken 4/4/18. This facility is in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana and is part of the Audubon...

Mississippi River - Gulf Killifish and Others Exhibit

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Taken 4/4/18. This facility is in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana and is part of the Audubon...

Mississippi River - Barred Owl

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Taken 4/4/18. This facility is in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana and is part of the Audubon...

 

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GULF OF MEXICO: (1 Exhibit)
The visitor path descends back to the first floor and encounters the aquarium's feature tank in a large hall.

Extra-large-sized tank viewed through several floor-to-ceiling windows and a round window, as well as an above-surface one on upper level:
Alligator Gar
Amberjack
Blue Runner
Green Sea Turtle
Nurse Shark
Sandbar Shark
Sandtiger Shark
Tarpon

Gulf of Mexico Exhibit

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Gulf of Mexico Exhibit

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Taken 4/4/18. This facility is in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana and is part of the Audubon...

Gulf of Mexico Exhibit

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Taken 4/4/18. This facility is in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana and is part of the Audubon...

 

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JELLIES: (5 Exhibits)
Opposite the large hall from the 'Gulf of Mexico' exhibit is a small exhibit cluster:

Medium-sized half-round tank:
Aggregating Anemone
Giant Green Anemone
Grunt Sculpin
Painted Greenling
Plumose Anemone
Rock Greenling
Strawberry Anemone

Medium-sized wall tank:
Upside-down Jelly

Medium-sized wall tank:
Pacific Sea Nettle

2 Medium-sized round wall tanks, both containing:
Atlantic Moon Jelly

Jellies - Aggregating Anemone and Others Exhibit

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• 3 Jun 2018

Taken 4/4/18. This facility is in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana and is part of the Audubon...

 

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SUMMARY:
By my count, the total number of exhibits currently at the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas is: 57

By my count, the total number of species in permanent exhibits with identification signs is: 165
The number of species I counted can be broken down into the following categories:
Mammals: 1
Birds: 4
Reptiles: 5
Amphibians: 8
Fish: 134
Invertebrates: 13