This list seems to be a bit more detailed than my zoo ones! The only major difference when it comes to this list is that the species I saw were marked with "*", rather than "."
Newport Aquarium Species + Seen List 05-04-2021
Freshwater Falls:
Two tanks at the entrance of the exhibit area:
Redhead Cichlid*
Tailbar Cichlid*
Nicaragua Cichlid*
Flier Cichlid*
Blackbelt Cichlid*
Yellow Jacket Cichlid*
Tank seen through both sides of wall:
Redhook Myleus*
Silver Dollar (Metynnis argenteus)*
Slender Tetra (Iguanodectes spilurus)*
Three Open-topped Cube Tanks next to each other:
Mbu Puffer*
Spotted Leaf Fish*
Congo Tetra*
Jewel Cichlid*
African Red-Eye Tetra*
Circular open-topped tank in the center of room:
Lake Malawi Cichlids*
Wall Tank:
Boeseman’s Rainbowfish*
Goyder River Rainbowfish*
Kamuka Rainbowfish*
Lake Kutubu Rainbowfish*
Red Rainbowfish*
Tami River Rainbowfish*
Dwarf Neon Rainbowfish*
Tank on outer corner of wall:
Sardine Cichlid*
Featherfin Squeaker Catfish*
Leopard Catfish
Marlier’s Julie*
Lemon Cichlid*
Rusty Cichlid*
Yellow Calvus
Another outer corner tank:
Blind Cavefish*
Electric White Lobster*
Third outer corner tank:
Pearl Danio*
Scissortail Rasbora*
Tiger Loach
Skunk Botia
Hillstream Loach
Dwarf Chain Loach*
Giant Danio*
Redtail Sharkminnow*
Opaline Gourami*
Paradise Gourami*
Pearl Gourami*
Fourth Outer corner tank:
Cardinal Tetra*
Emerald Tetra
Rummy-Nose Tetra*
Scalare Angelfish
Emerald Corydora
Panda Corydora
Red Head Eartheater
Marbled Hatchetfish
Discus
Wall tank:
Empty
Small Tunnel Tank:
Hybrid Striped Bass*
Smallmouth Bass*
Yellow Perch*
Black Crappie*
Bluegill*
Largemouth Bass*
Shores Gallery:
Wall paludarium:
Diamondback Terrapin*
Standalone tank next to wall:
Little Skate*
Sarcastic Fringehead*
Giant Kelpfish*
Decorator Crab
Strawberry Anemone
Wall Tank:
Asian Upside-Down Catfish*
New Guinea Snake-Necked Turtle*
Spotted Archerfish*
Featherfin Squeaker*
Wall Tank:
Flame Cardinalfish*
French Angel*
Pygmy Angel*
Cuban Spotfin Hogfish*
Bermuda Blue Angelfish*
Rock Beauty*
Silver Jenny*
Four-Eyed Butterflyfish*
Wall Tank:
Mexican Swordtail*
Chiapas Giant Musk Turtle*
Largescale Foureyes*
Diamond Tetra*
Large Shallow Touch Tank Area:
Red Abalone*
Round Ray*
White-Spotted Anemone*
Bat Star*
Channeled Whelk
Ochre Star*
Giant Green Anemone*
Leather Star
Wall Tank:
Flame Anthias*
Pajama Cardinalfish*
Epaulette Shark*
Red-Bar Anthias*
Banggai Cardinalfish*
Blue-Green Chromis*
Wall Tank:
Snowflake Moray*
Raccoon Butterflyfish*
Yellow Teardrop Butterflyfish*
Dog-Face Puffer*
Indian Gold Ring Tang
Indian Sailfin Surgeonfish*
Long Wall Tank:
Two-Spined Angelfish*
Kole Tang
Golden Damselfish
Red Anemonefish*
Harlequin Tuskfish
Yellow Tang*
Bird Wrasse*
Sapphire Devil Damselfish*
Achilles Tang*
Yellowbar Angelfish*
Longhorn Cowfish*
Pearlscale Butterflyfish*
Purple Tang*
Wall Tank:
Spanish Hogfish*
Queen Angelfish*
Harlequin Bass
Semicircle Angelfish*
French Angel*
Blue Tang Surgeonfish*
Caribbean Spiny Lobster*
Lemon Damselfish*
Semicircle Angelfish x Yellowbar Angelfish (?)*
Stoplight Parrotfish (Juvenile) (?)*
Spotfin Butterflyfish*
View into Surrounded By Sharks:
Short Tunnel:
Kelp Bass*
Whitespotted Greenling*
Wolf-Eel*
Brown Rockfish*
Halfmoon*
California Sheephead*
Copper Rockfish*
Barred Sand Bass*
Swell Shark*
Seahorses : Unbridled Fun:
Wall Tank:
Barbour’s Seahorse*
Mandarin Dragonet*
Razorfish*
Thorny Seahorse*
Wall Tank:
Silver Moony*
Atlantic Bumper*
Coral Cat Shark*
Cylindrical Wall Tank:
Dwarf Seahorse*
Wall Tank:
Upside-Down Jellyfish*
Large Tank on Corner of Wall:
European Cuttlefish*
Two Standalone Tanks Connected by Tubes:
Forktail Rainbowfish*
Pacific Blue Eye*
Threadfin Rainbowfish*
Celebes Rainbowfish*
Spotted Blue Eye*
Longsnouted Pipefish
Wall Tank:
Big-Bellied Seahorse*
Grunt Sculpin*
Bluebanded Goby*
Vermilion Sea Star*
Munida quadrispina (possibly Munidopsis serricornis) *
Long Wall Tank:
American Paddlefish*
Lake Sturgeon*
Shipwreck: Realm of the Eels:
Wall Tank:
Spotted Moray Eel
French Grunt*
Wall Tank:
Spotted Garden Eel*
Splendid Garden Eel*
Palaemonetes sp. (?) (possibly sp. pugio?)*
Wall Tank:
Batfish (Ogocephalus cubiformes)*
Painted Frogfish*
Wall Tank:
Engineer Goby*
Two Large Tanks:
Green Moray Eel*
High Hat*
Sergeant Major*
Brown Chromis (?)*
Blue-Striped Grunt (?)*
Bicolor Angelfish*
Cuban Hogfish*
Standalone U-Shaped Tank:
Percula Clownfish*
Blue Tang*
Royal Gramma*
Blue Chromis*
Foxface Rabbitfish*
Pearlscale Butterflyfish*
Whitetail Damselfish*
Orchid Dottyback (?)*
Large Wall Tank:
Flying Gurnard*
Orange-Spotted Spinefoot*
Spotted Scorpionfish*
Vermiculated Spinefoot*
Red Lionfish*
Blackedge Moray Eel*
Gator Alley:
Wall Terrarium:
Chinese Crocodile Lizard*
Wall Tank:
Tiger Barb*
Giant Danio*
Onespot Barb*
Wall Terrarium:
Green Tree Python*
Wall Paludarium:
Anderson’s Alligator Newt
Wall Paludarium:
Ringed Sawback Turtle*
Tiger Barb*
Large Alligator Exhibit:
White American Alligator*
Channel Catfish*
Bluegill*
Shortnose Gar*
Florida Cooter*
Wall Terrarium:
Shield-Tailed Agama*
Wall Terrarium:
Tomato Frog*
Henkel’s Leaf-Tailed Gecko*
Wall Terrarium:
Solomon Island Skink*
Wall Paludarium:
Northern Caiman Lizard*
Green Plumed Basilisk Lizard*
Pond Exhibit under Boardwalk for Baby Alligators:
Largemouth Buffalo*
Blue Catfish*
Flathead Catfish*
American Alligator*
Largemouth Bass*
Alligator Gar*
Frog Bog:
Wall Terrarium:
Solomon Island Leaf Frog*
Wall Terrarium:
Amazon Milk Frog*
Wall Terrarium:
Splash-Backed Poison Dart Frog*
Blue Poison Dart Frog*
Green and Black Poison Dart Frog*
Anthony’s Poison Arrow Frog*
Bumblebee Poison Dart Frog*
Paludarium on Side of Structure:
Spotted Turtle*
Terrarium in Tunnel:
Cane Toad*
Wall Tank:
Greater Siren*
Wall Terrarium:
Brown Mantella*
Green Mantella*
Wall Terrarium:
Southern Toad*
Cope’s Gray Tree Frog*
Wall Terrarium:
Yellow Spotted Climbing Toad*
Wall Aquarium:
Anderson’s Alligator Newt*
Stingray Hideaway:
Large Stingray Touch Tank with Multiple Touch and Viewing Areas:
Empty
Iguana Exhibit with Coastal Aquarium:
Rhinoceros Iguana*
Red-Sided Curly-Tailed Lizard*
Green Anole*
Bluespotted Ribbontail Ray*
Amazon Tunnel:
32-Foot Long Acrylic Tunnel:
Ripsaw Catfish
Striped Headstander*
Silver Prochilodus*
Pacu*
Banded Leporinus*
Chocolate Cichlid*
Bigtooth River Stingray*
Redhook Myleus*
Arapaima*
Coral Reef:
Large Acrylic Tunnel:
Peacock Hind*
White-Spotted Puffer*
Cownose Ray*
Powder Blue Tang*
Red Anemonefish
Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse
Silver Moony*
King Angelfish*
African Moony*
Honeycomb Moray
Eyestripe Surgeonfish*
Bicolor Angelfish*
Blue Tang*
Bluespine Unicornfish*
Bignose Unicornfish*
Raccoon Butterflyfish*
Sailfin Tang*
Lined Surgeonfish*
Sohal Tang*
Naso Tang*
Spotted Knifejaw*
Longspined Porcupinefish*
Stripey*
Pacific Double-Saddle Butterflyfish*
Spotted Unicornfish*
Sailfin Snapper*
Convict Surgeonfish*
Yellowtail Tang*
Redtail Butterflyfish*
Blue-Ring Angelfish*
Unidentified Fish (Grey Angelfish?)*
Ring of Fire : World of the Octopus:
Large Cylindrical Tank in Center of Room:
Cherry Anthias*
Longspine Snipefish*
Japanese Spider Crab*
Shiner Perch*
Wall Tank:
Giant Pacific Octopus*
Plumose Anemone*
Giant Pink Star*
Giant Red Sea Urchin*
Giant Green Anemone*
Red Abalone (?)*
Wall Tank:
Moon Jellyfish*
Surrounded by Sharks:
300,000 gallon tank:
Bluestriped Grunt*
Three Spot Damselfish*
Orange Epaulette Surgeonfish*
Porkfish*
Sergeant Major*
Giant Grouper
Grey Snapper*
Shark Ray*
Loggerhead Sea Turtle*
Mangrove Whipray
Semicircle Angelfish
Honeycomb Whiptail Ray*
Barred Flagtail*
Blacktip Reef Shark*
Permit*
Nassau Grouper*
Arabian Angelfish*
Black Triggerfish*
Silver Moony*
Five-Lined Snapper*
Ocean Surgeonfish*
Great Palometa*
Convict Surgeonfish*
Nurse Shark
Gray Angelfish*
Shark Central:
Irregular Shaped Touch Tank:
Port Jackson Shark*
Shovelnose Guitarfish*
Striped Catshark*
Japanese Bullhead Shark*
Penguin Palooza:
Large Penguin Exhibit:
King Penguin*
Gentoo Penguin*
Macaroni Penguin*
Chinstrap Penguin*
Southern Rockhopper Penguin*
Off-Show:
Small Room with Pool:
African Penguin*
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Any questions, comments, and concerns are welcome
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Newport Aquarium Species + Seen List 05-04-2021
Freshwater Falls:
Two tanks at the entrance of the exhibit area:
Redhead Cichlid*
Tailbar Cichlid*
Nicaragua Cichlid*
Flier Cichlid*
Blackbelt Cichlid*
Yellow Jacket Cichlid*
Tank seen through both sides of wall:
Redhook Myleus*
Silver Dollar (Metynnis argenteus)*
Slender Tetra (Iguanodectes spilurus)*
Three Open-topped Cube Tanks next to each other:
Mbu Puffer*
Spotted Leaf Fish*
Congo Tetra*
Jewel Cichlid*
African Red-Eye Tetra*
Circular open-topped tank in the center of room:
Lake Malawi Cichlids*
Wall Tank:
Boeseman’s Rainbowfish*
Goyder River Rainbowfish*
Kamuka Rainbowfish*
Lake Kutubu Rainbowfish*
Red Rainbowfish*
Tami River Rainbowfish*
Dwarf Neon Rainbowfish*
Tank on outer corner of wall:
Sardine Cichlid*
Featherfin Squeaker Catfish*
Leopard Catfish
Marlier’s Julie*
Lemon Cichlid*
Rusty Cichlid*
Yellow Calvus
Another outer corner tank:
Blind Cavefish*
Electric White Lobster*
Third outer corner tank:
Pearl Danio*
Scissortail Rasbora*
Tiger Loach
Skunk Botia
Hillstream Loach
Dwarf Chain Loach*
Giant Danio*
Redtail Sharkminnow*
Opaline Gourami*
Paradise Gourami*
Pearl Gourami*
Fourth Outer corner tank:
Cardinal Tetra*
Emerald Tetra
Rummy-Nose Tetra*
Scalare Angelfish
Emerald Corydora
Panda Corydora
Red Head Eartheater
Marbled Hatchetfish
Discus
Wall tank:
Empty
Small Tunnel Tank:
Hybrid Striped Bass*
Smallmouth Bass*
Yellow Perch*
Black Crappie*
Bluegill*
Largemouth Bass*
Shores Gallery:
Wall paludarium:
Diamondback Terrapin*
Standalone tank next to wall:
Little Skate*
Sarcastic Fringehead*
Giant Kelpfish*
Decorator Crab
Strawberry Anemone
Wall Tank:
Asian Upside-Down Catfish*
New Guinea Snake-Necked Turtle*
Spotted Archerfish*
Featherfin Squeaker*
Wall Tank:
Flame Cardinalfish*
French Angel*
Pygmy Angel*
Cuban Spotfin Hogfish*
Bermuda Blue Angelfish*
Rock Beauty*
Silver Jenny*
Four-Eyed Butterflyfish*
Wall Tank:
Mexican Swordtail*
Chiapas Giant Musk Turtle*
Largescale Foureyes*
Diamond Tetra*
Large Shallow Touch Tank Area:
Red Abalone*
Round Ray*
White-Spotted Anemone*
Bat Star*
Channeled Whelk
Ochre Star*
Giant Green Anemone*
Leather Star
Wall Tank:
Flame Anthias*
Pajama Cardinalfish*
Epaulette Shark*
Red-Bar Anthias*
Banggai Cardinalfish*
Blue-Green Chromis*
Wall Tank:
Snowflake Moray*
Raccoon Butterflyfish*
Yellow Teardrop Butterflyfish*
Dog-Face Puffer*
Indian Gold Ring Tang
Indian Sailfin Surgeonfish*
Long Wall Tank:
Two-Spined Angelfish*
Kole Tang
Golden Damselfish
Red Anemonefish*
Harlequin Tuskfish
Yellow Tang*
Bird Wrasse*
Sapphire Devil Damselfish*
Achilles Tang*
Yellowbar Angelfish*
Longhorn Cowfish*
Pearlscale Butterflyfish*
Purple Tang*
Wall Tank:
Spanish Hogfish*
Queen Angelfish*
Harlequin Bass
Semicircle Angelfish*
French Angel*
Blue Tang Surgeonfish*
Caribbean Spiny Lobster*
Lemon Damselfish*
Semicircle Angelfish x Yellowbar Angelfish (?)*
Stoplight Parrotfish (Juvenile) (?)*
Spotfin Butterflyfish*
View into Surrounded By Sharks:
Short Tunnel:
Kelp Bass*
Whitespotted Greenling*
Wolf-Eel*
Brown Rockfish*
Halfmoon*
California Sheephead*
Copper Rockfish*
Barred Sand Bass*
Swell Shark*
Seahorses : Unbridled Fun:
Wall Tank:
Barbour’s Seahorse*
Mandarin Dragonet*
Razorfish*
Thorny Seahorse*
Wall Tank:
Silver Moony*
Atlantic Bumper*
Coral Cat Shark*
Cylindrical Wall Tank:
Dwarf Seahorse*
Wall Tank:
Upside-Down Jellyfish*
Large Tank on Corner of Wall:
European Cuttlefish*
Two Standalone Tanks Connected by Tubes:
Forktail Rainbowfish*
Pacific Blue Eye*
Threadfin Rainbowfish*
Celebes Rainbowfish*
Spotted Blue Eye*
Longsnouted Pipefish
Wall Tank:
Big-Bellied Seahorse*
Grunt Sculpin*
Bluebanded Goby*
Vermilion Sea Star*
Munida quadrispina (possibly Munidopsis serricornis) *
Long Wall Tank:
American Paddlefish*
Lake Sturgeon*
Shipwreck: Realm of the Eels:
Wall Tank:
Spotted Moray Eel
French Grunt*
Wall Tank:
Spotted Garden Eel*
Splendid Garden Eel*
Palaemonetes sp. (?) (possibly sp. pugio?)*
Wall Tank:
Batfish (Ogocephalus cubiformes)*
Painted Frogfish*
Wall Tank:
Engineer Goby*
Two Large Tanks:
Green Moray Eel*
High Hat*
Sergeant Major*
Brown Chromis (?)*
Blue-Striped Grunt (?)*
Bicolor Angelfish*
Cuban Hogfish*
Standalone U-Shaped Tank:
Percula Clownfish*
Blue Tang*
Royal Gramma*
Blue Chromis*
Foxface Rabbitfish*
Pearlscale Butterflyfish*
Whitetail Damselfish*
Orchid Dottyback (?)*
Large Wall Tank:
Flying Gurnard*
Orange-Spotted Spinefoot*
Spotted Scorpionfish*
Vermiculated Spinefoot*
Red Lionfish*
Blackedge Moray Eel*
Gator Alley:
Wall Terrarium:
Chinese Crocodile Lizard*
Wall Tank:
Tiger Barb*
Giant Danio*
Onespot Barb*
Wall Terrarium:
Green Tree Python*
Wall Paludarium:
Anderson’s Alligator Newt
Wall Paludarium:
Ringed Sawback Turtle*
Tiger Barb*
Large Alligator Exhibit:
White American Alligator*
Channel Catfish*
Bluegill*
Shortnose Gar*
Florida Cooter*
Wall Terrarium:
Shield-Tailed Agama*
Wall Terrarium:
Tomato Frog*
Henkel’s Leaf-Tailed Gecko*
Wall Terrarium:
Solomon Island Skink*
Wall Paludarium:
Northern Caiman Lizard*
Green Plumed Basilisk Lizard*
Pond Exhibit under Boardwalk for Baby Alligators:
Largemouth Buffalo*
Blue Catfish*
Flathead Catfish*
American Alligator*
Largemouth Bass*
Alligator Gar*
Frog Bog:
Wall Terrarium:
Solomon Island Leaf Frog*
Wall Terrarium:
Amazon Milk Frog*
Wall Terrarium:
Splash-Backed Poison Dart Frog*
Blue Poison Dart Frog*
Green and Black Poison Dart Frog*
Anthony’s Poison Arrow Frog*
Bumblebee Poison Dart Frog*
Paludarium on Side of Structure:
Spotted Turtle*
Terrarium in Tunnel:
Cane Toad*
Wall Tank:
Greater Siren*
Wall Terrarium:
Brown Mantella*
Green Mantella*
Wall Terrarium:
Southern Toad*
Cope’s Gray Tree Frog*
Wall Terrarium:
Yellow Spotted Climbing Toad*
Wall Aquarium:
Anderson’s Alligator Newt*
Stingray Hideaway:
Large Stingray Touch Tank with Multiple Touch and Viewing Areas:
Empty
Iguana Exhibit with Coastal Aquarium:
Rhinoceros Iguana*
Red-Sided Curly-Tailed Lizard*
Green Anole*
Bluespotted Ribbontail Ray*
Amazon Tunnel:
32-Foot Long Acrylic Tunnel:
Ripsaw Catfish
Striped Headstander*
Silver Prochilodus*
Pacu*
Banded Leporinus*
Chocolate Cichlid*
Bigtooth River Stingray*
Redhook Myleus*
Arapaima*
Coral Reef:
Large Acrylic Tunnel:
Peacock Hind*
White-Spotted Puffer*
Cownose Ray*
Powder Blue Tang*
Red Anemonefish
Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse
Silver Moony*
King Angelfish*
African Moony*
Honeycomb Moray
Eyestripe Surgeonfish*
Bicolor Angelfish*
Blue Tang*
Bluespine Unicornfish*
Bignose Unicornfish*
Raccoon Butterflyfish*
Sailfin Tang*
Lined Surgeonfish*
Sohal Tang*
Naso Tang*
Spotted Knifejaw*
Longspined Porcupinefish*
Stripey*
Pacific Double-Saddle Butterflyfish*
Spotted Unicornfish*
Sailfin Snapper*
Convict Surgeonfish*
Yellowtail Tang*
Redtail Butterflyfish*
Blue-Ring Angelfish*
Unidentified Fish (Grey Angelfish?)*
Ring of Fire : World of the Octopus:
Large Cylindrical Tank in Center of Room:
Cherry Anthias*
Longspine Snipefish*
Japanese Spider Crab*
Shiner Perch*
Wall Tank:
Giant Pacific Octopus*
Plumose Anemone*
Giant Pink Star*
Giant Red Sea Urchin*
Giant Green Anemone*
Red Abalone (?)*
Wall Tank:
Moon Jellyfish*
Surrounded by Sharks:
300,000 gallon tank:
Bluestriped Grunt*
Three Spot Damselfish*
Orange Epaulette Surgeonfish*
Porkfish*
Sergeant Major*
Giant Grouper
Grey Snapper*
Shark Ray*
Loggerhead Sea Turtle*
Mangrove Whipray
Semicircle Angelfish
Honeycomb Whiptail Ray*
Barred Flagtail*
Blacktip Reef Shark*
Permit*
Nassau Grouper*
Arabian Angelfish*
Black Triggerfish*
Silver Moony*
Five-Lined Snapper*
Ocean Surgeonfish*
Great Palometa*
Convict Surgeonfish*
Nurse Shark
Gray Angelfish*
Shark Central:
Irregular Shaped Touch Tank:
Port Jackson Shark*
Shovelnose Guitarfish*
Striped Catshark*
Japanese Bullhead Shark*
Penguin Palooza:
Large Penguin Exhibit:
King Penguin*
Gentoo Penguin*
Macaroni Penguin*
Chinstrap Penguin*
Southern Rockhopper Penguin*
Off-Show:
Small Room with Pool:
African Penguin*
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Any questions, comments, and concerns are welcome
.