Clownfish
Clownfish and certain damselfish are the only species of fishes that can avoid the potent poison of a sea anemone. This is due to a layer of mucus on the clownfish’s skin that makes it immune to the fish-eating anemone’s lethal sting.
Animals with an asterisk (*) are part of the outreach collection and cannot be seen on exhibit at the zoo.
- Banded Coral Shrimp
- Bat Star
- Blue Death Feigning Beetle
- Blue Mushroom Coral
- Bubble Tip Anemone
- Button Coral
- Cabbage Leather Coral
- Cauliflower Coral
- Chilean Rose-Haired Tarantula
- Christmas Anemone
- Cleaner Shrimp
- Colt Coral
- Darkling Beetle
- Electric Blue Legged Hermit Crabs
- Fish Eating Anemone
- Frogspawn Coral
- Giant African Millipede
- Giant Green Polyp Duncan
- Giant Pacific Octopus
- Grey Death Feigning Beetle
- Harlequin Flower Beetle
- Kenya Tree Coral
- Leather Star
- Madagascar Hissing Cockroach*
- Moon jellyfish
- Nassarius Snails
- Ochre Seastar
- Orange Capricornis
- Pencil Urchin
- Peppermint Shrimp
- Pineapple Coral
- Pink Sea Star
- Purple Anemone
- Purple Tree Gorgonian
- Red Banded Trochus Snail
- Red Mushroom Coral
- Rose Bubble Tip Anemone
- Stimpson's Star
- Sunflower Star
- Suntiger Tarantula
- Swimming Anemone
- Tanzanian Whip Scorpion
- Tectum Snail
- Trochus Snail
- Watermelon Mushroom Coral
- White-Spotted Anemone
- White-Spotted Rose Anemone
- Zoanthids
*Outreach animal
