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.
- Acropora
- African Giant Millipede
- Asian Forest Scorpion
- Bali Green Slimer
- Banded Coral Shrimp
- Bat Star
- Black Death Feigning Beetle
- Blue Death Feigning Beetle
- Blue Hydnophora
- Blue Mushroom Coral
- Bubble Tip Anemone
- Button Coral
- Cabbage Leather Coral
- Chilean Rose-Haired Tarantula
- Chocolate Chip Sea Star
- Christmas Anemone
- Cleaner Shrimp
- Colt Coral
- Condylactus Anemone
- Darkling Beetle
- Desert Hairy Scorpion
- Electric Blue Legged Hermit Crabs
- Emperor Black Scorpion
- Fish Eating Anemone
- Frogspawn Coral
- Giant Green Polyp Duncan
- Giant Pacific Octopus
- Goblins Fire Zoanthid
- Green Nepthea
- Gumboot Chiton
- Halloween Crab*
- Harlequin Flower Beetle
- Indonesian Torch
- Kenya Tree Coral
- Leather Star
- Madagascar Hissing Cockroach
- Magicians Zoanthid
- Mexican Fireleg Tarantula
- Nassarius Snails
- Open Brain Coral
- Orange Capricornis
- Pencil Urchin
- Peppermint Shrimp
- Pineapple Coral
- Pink Sea Star
- Purple Chalice Coral
- Purple Ochre Star
- Purple Tree Gorgonian
- Rainbow Scarab Dung Beetle
- Red Banded Trochus Snail
- Red Mushroom Coral
- Ricordea Mushroom Coral
- Rose Bubble Tip Anemone
- Scarlet Reef Hermit Crab
- Smooth Death Feigning Beetle
- Sonoran Desert Centipede
- Stimpson's Star
- Stylophora Coral
- Sun Dendrophyllia
- Sunflower Star
- Swimming Anemone
- Tanzanian Whip Scorpion
- Tectum Snail
- Toadstool Mushroom Leather Coral
- Trochus Snail
- Vermillion Star
- Watermelon Mushroom Coral
- White-Spotted Anemone
- White-Spotted Rose Anemone
- Zoanthids
