This species list is current as of December 21, 2018.
The Dallas World Aquarium has an ever-changing rotation of unique animals on exhibit. A species list was posted by
@d1am0ndback but much has changed since then. I hope this thread will be used to keep a current list of species at the aquarium, and with the entire aquarium in one post, will be easier to update and maintain in the future. I unfortunately was not feeling too great on the day of my visit, and as such, I did not spend as much time in the aquarium as I normally would. Because of this, I did not record fish species for the most part, and those sections of my list have either been borrowed from the previous species list, or from the (admittedly outdated) website or guidebook. A few of the exhibits (especially in Borneo or the herps in Mundo Maya) may be out of order. I have corrected all of these issues to the best of my ability. Exhibits are by both major exhibit area and minor theme; bolded titles refer to the aquarium's five major exhibits (Borneo, Orinoco, Aquarium, South Africa, and Mundo Maya) and underlined portions refer to minor themes. For example, Toucan Terrace is composed of 6 individual exhibits so these exhibits are clumped together, with the first indicating this sub-exhibit, and spaced apart from the adjacent River and Flooded Forest exhibits.
Borneo
1. Green-naped pheasant pigeon, Red-tailed black cockatoo
2. Lesser bird-of-paradise, Wompoo fruit dove
3. Rhinoceros hornbill, Argus pheasant
4. Great Indian hornbill, Victorian crowned pigeon
5. Luzon bleeding heart, Bali mynah, Jambu fruit dove, Pesquet’s parrot
6. Asian arowana, Australian lungfish
7. Giant red-finned gourami, black marsh turtle
8. Blyth’s hornbill, western crowned pigeon
9. Matschie's tree kangaroo
10. Palm cockatoo
11. Shoebill, African green pigeon, red-billed pintail, great blue turaco, Fischer’s turaco
12. Little blue penguin
Orinoco
1. (Above stairs) Blue-throated macaw
2.
Jungle Jewels: Guianan red cotinga, golden-headed manakin, red-capped manakin*, paradise tanager, blue-naped chlorophonia*, golden-collared manakin, northern swallow tanager, wattled jacana, scaled pigeon, little tinamou
3.
Free flight: scarlet-headed blackbird, red-rumped cacique, yellow-rumped cacique, green oropendola, crested oropendola, Venezuelan troupial, crimson-backed tanager, silver-beaked tanager, lemon-rumped tanager, red-crested cardinal, scarlet ibis, roseate spoonbill, green aracari, chestnut-eared aracari, crimson-rumped toucanet, motmot**, Puerto Rican woodpecker, Chiriqui quail-dove
4.
Jungle Junction: Toco toucan, pale-mandibled aracari, Panamanian boat-billed heron, yellow-crowned night heron, Montezuma oropendola, giant anteater
5.
Trogon Heights: black-tailed trogon, green-backed trogon, golden-headed quetzal, fiery-billed aracari, motmot**, ruddy quail-dove, purplish-backed quail-dove, purple-throated fruitcrow
6.
Monkey Island: White-faced saki monkey
7. Pied tamarin (off show currently)
8. Giant otter
9. View of
River: southern pochard, black-bellied whistling duck, Orinoco goose, rosy-billed pochard, Chiloé wigeon, ringed teal, Antillean manatee, fish (described later)
10.
Sloth Forest: Pygmy marmoset
11. Black-necked aracari
12. Brown-throated three-toed sloth
13. Black-throated aracari, black-throated toucanet
14.
Howler Heights: Red howler monkey, northern helmeted curassow
15. (below the visitor) Orinoco crocodile, fish (described later)
16.
Cotinga Corner: Scarlet cock-of-the-rock, Andean cock-of-the-rock, Guianan cock-of-the-rock, capuchinbird, long-wattled umbrellabird, nocturnal curassow, many-banded aracari
17.
Lobo del Rio: Giant otter (same exhibit as previous)
18.
The Cave: Amazon tree boa
19.
Lizard Cove: Northern caiman lizard
20.
Avian Trail: Plate-billed mountain toucan, fiery-billed aracari, blue-banded toucanet, wattled guan, golden lion tamarin
21. Emerald tree boa
22. Double yellow-headed amazon
23.
River’s Edge: green anaconda, black spiny-tailed iguana, discus, neon tetras, assorted fish
24.
Bats and Bugs: Cuvier’s dwarf caiman
25. Fire leg tarantula
26. Amazon poison dart frog
27. Goliath bird-eating tarantula
28. Vampire bat
29. Red-tailed boa
30.
Crocodile Cove: Orinoco crocodile, black pacu, red-bellied piranha
31.
Flooded Forest: Aquatic caecilian
32. Electric eel
33. Brazilian yellow-head locale of dyeing poison frog
34. Polkadot stingray, silver arowana, yellow-spotted Amazon River turtle, Llanos sideneck turtle
35.
Toucan Terrace: Versicolored barbet, ruddy quail-dove
36. Razor-billed curassow, toco toucan
37. Bigtooth river stingray, mata mata
38. Wattled curassow, Hoffman’s two-toed sloth
39. Curl-crested aracari, elegant-crested tinamou
40. Golden-headed lion tamarin
41.
The River: Budgett’s frog
42. Blue poison frog
43. Antillean manatee, red-tailed catfish, fork-snouted catfish, giant arapaima, spotted shovel-nose catfish, polka dot stingray, Arrau turtle
Aquarium
44.
Solomon Islands: Moon jelly
45. Flashlight fish, splitfin flashlight fish, racoon butterflyfish, mystery wrasse
46.
Lord Howe Island: Wide-banded anemonefish, McCulloch's clownfish, comb wrasse, painted goldie, spectacled angelfish, bluestreak cleaner wrasse, green chromis
47.
Southern Australia: Pot-bellied seahorse
48. Leafy sea dragon, weedy sea dragon, tasseled anglerfish
49.
Fiji: Spotted dragonet
50. Cinnamon clownfish, lyretail anthias, pink skunk clownfish
51.
New Guinea: Blue assessor, yellow assessor, copperband butterflyfish, lawnmower blenny, yellow candy hogfish, blue hippo tang, emperor angelfish, green-spotted dragonet, mandarin dragonet, six line wrasse, percula clownfish, marginalis butterflyfish
52.
British Columbia: Giant pacific octopus, tiger rockfish
53. Blackeye goby, tube snout, China rockfish, grunt sculpin, sailfin, monkeyface prickleback
54.
Sri Lanka: mitratus butterflyfish, weedy scorpionfish, Evan's anthias, Moorish idol, gem tang, powder blue tang, zebra angelfish
55.
Japan: Japanese spider crab, spot prawn, longspine snipefish
56. Moorish idol, powder brown tang, blotchy anthias, wrought iron butterflyfish, Japanese angelfish, blue-lined angelfish, Japanese swallowtail angelfish, splendid garden eel, spotted garden eel
57.
Indonesia: Orange skunk clownfish, bellus lyretail angelfish, Banggai cardinalfish, bar goby, black ocellaris clownfish, aiptasia-eating filefish, chocolate surgeonfish, many-banded pipefish, blue assessor, fathead anthias, Pacific blue-striped pipefish, six line wrasse
58. Pacific blue-striped pipefish, Janss' pipefish
59.
Continental Shelf: Napoleon wrasse, blue-spotted stingray, threadfin snapper, dragon wrasse, harlequin tuskfish, clown triggerfish, red-toothed triggerfish, unicorn tang (apologies, as this one is a bit lacking)
South Africa
60. Rock hyrax, eastern yellow-billed hornbill
61. African black-footed penguin
62. Madagascan giant day gecko, tomato frog
63. Klemmer's day gecko
64. Painted mantella
65. Blue-bellied roller
66. Madagascan big-headed turtle
67. Radiated tortoise
Mundo Maya
68.
River Delta: Brown basilisk
69. Arboreal alligator lizard
70. Hernandez’ helmeted basilisk
71. Flame leg tarantula
72. Yapok, jaguar cichlid, Jack Dempsey cichlid
73. Axolotl
74.
Fishes of the Cenote: Blind cavefish
75. Los Petennes: Desert cottontail, burrowing owl
76. Eastern screech owl
77.
Cenote: Spotted moray eel, red lionfish
78. Blacknose shark, sandbar shark, bonnethead shark, freshwater sawfish, goliath grouper, southern stingray, white-spotted guitarfish
79.
Marine Creatures: Flame cardinalfish, Clarion angelfish, longspine urchin, pencil urchin, blue chromis, brown chromis, rock urchin, blue-spotted jawfish, black cap basslet, scrawled filefish
80. Grey angelfish, jewel damsel, blue angelfish, sergeant major damsel, reef butterflyfish, slippery dick, royal gramma, neon yellowhead wrasse, pencil urchin, beau gregory damsel, bluehead wrasse, blue tang, clown wrasse, Spanish hogfish, cherub angelfish, black durgon, blue chromis, brown chromis, harlequin bass
81. Lined seahorse
82. Urchin sp.
83. Lined seahorse
84.
Serpent’s Den: Blue spiny lizard, Mexican leaf frog
85. Terciopelo
86. Eyelash viper
87. Mexican beaded lizard
88. Middle American rattlesnake
89.
House of Zotz: barred owl
90. Seba’s short-tailed fruit bat
91. Red-eyed tree frog
92. Morelet’s crocodile
93. Plumed basilisk
94. Painted wood turtle
95. Nicaraguan slider
96.
Free flight: Fulvous-crested tanager, red-legged honeycreeper, purple honeycreeper, Northern swallow tanager, yellow-green grosbeak, southern yellow grosbeak, spangled cotinga, blue dacnis, blue-necked tanager, burnished-buff tanager, motmot**, golden-headed manakin, Panamanian acorn woodpecker, Puerto Rican woodpecker, green-backed trogon, sparkling violetear, broad-billed hummingbird, rufous hummingbird, Anna’s hummingbird, Chiriqui quail-dove
97.
Caribbean Creatures: Lesser devil ray, spotted eagle ray
98. (above the tank, against the wall) Guianan crested eagle
99.
Birds of El Triunfo: Spectacled owl
100. Ornate hawk-eagle
101. Harpy eagle
102.
Mayan Temple: Brazilian ocelot
103. American flamingo
104.
Selva Maya: Spectacled owl, ocellated turkey, red-rumped agouti
105. Black hawk-eagle
106. Jabiru stork
*I did not find these species on my visit and their presence is as-yet unconfirmed.
**the species of motmot kept in US collections is at present unknown, and DWA in particular is tough to determine due to the unknown location from which some of their individuals were imported.
Construction for the aquarium's newest exhibit has begun and is visible from Orinoco. No details have been released about what this exhibit will be.
