Trip 2
Trip 5
Trip 6
- St. Louis Zoo, Missouri
- The Butterfly House, St. Louis, MO
- Wonders of Wildlife Museum, Springfield, MO
- Sedgwick County Zoo, Wichita, KS
- Denver Zoo, Colorado
- Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo, Nebraska
- Oklahoma City Zoo, Oklahoma
- Dallas Zoo, Texas
- Dallas World Aquarium, Texas
Trip 7
Trip 8
Trip 9
Trip 10
International Species Information System (ISIS)
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Many orders of animals have no representatives living in North America north of Mexico. If any of these animals are to be "experienced" in North America, it must be at a zoo.
Some species naturally exotic to North America, or difficult to experience in the wild, that can be found at zoos on Trip 2 (the Florida Aquarium in Tampa is the only zoo on Trip 2):
- Porifera: Sponges
- Hydrozoa: Fire Coral
- Actinaria: Carpet Anemone
- Alcyonacea: Leathery Soft Corals
- Gorgonacea: Sea Fans and Sea Plumes
- Ceriantipatharia: Tube-Dwelling Anemones
- Corallimorpharia: Strawberry False Coral
- Scleractinia: Staghorn, Elkhorn and other stony corals
- Hirudinida: Leeches
- Polychaeta: Featherduster Worms
- Polyplacophora: Gumboot Chiton
- Limoida: File Clam
- Veneroida: Giant Clam
- Decapodiformes: Cuttlefishes
- Nautilida: Nautili
- Neritoida: Tooth Snails
- Dendrobranchiata: Penaeid Shrimps
- Palinura: Shovelnose Slipper Lobster
- Stenopodidea: Banded Coral Shrimp
- Asteroidea: Sea Stars
- Echinoidea: Atlantic Purple Sea Urchin
- Holothuroidea: Florida Sea Cucumber
- Ophiuroidea: Brittle Stars
- Carcharhiniformes Reef, Swell and Hammerhead Sharks
- Chimaeriformes: Spotted Ratfish
- Clupeiformes: Herring
- Elopiformes: Tarpon
- Batrachoidiformes:Toadfishes
- Lophiiformes: Shortnose Batfish
- Dactylopteriformes: Oriental Flying Gurnard
- Scorpaeniformes: Scorpionfishes
- Tetraodontiformes: Triggerfishes and Puffers
- Gasterosteiformes: Seahorses
- Mugiliformes: Mullet
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