California Academy of Sciences, Rainforest Gallery

Step inside a living 4-story rainforest, where dripping water sets the beat for a symphony of croaking frogs and chirping birds. Meet chameleons from Madagascar, climb into the treetops of Costa Rica to find free flying birds and butterflies. Finally, descend in a glass elevator into the ...more ↓

Largescale Four-eyed Fish ¹
Anableps anableps

Panaque nigrolineatus ²

Apistogramma eunotus ³

electric eel ⁴
Electrophorus electricus

Pirarucu ⁵
Arapaima gigas

Brycon ⁶

Chalceus macrolepidotus ⁷

black pacu ⁸
Colossoma macropomum

Leporinus fasciatus ⁹

Atlantic Tarpon ¹⁰
Megalops atlanticus

Pacu ¹¹
Metynnis argenteus

Myleus rubripinnis ¹²
Myloplus rubripinnis

silver arowana ⁸
Osteoglossum bicirrhosum

ripsaw catfish ¹³
Oxydoras niger

redtail catfish ¹⁴
Phractocephalus hemioliopterus

Semaprochilodus taeniurus ¹⁵

Corydoras ¹⁶

Neon ¹⁷
Paracheirodon axelrodi

Brachydanio ¹⁸

Carinotetraodon ²

Danio ¹⁹

Danio choprae ¹⁶

Epalzeorhynchos bicolor ²⁰

Macropodus opercularis ²¹

Puntius ²²

Puntius titteya ²²

Rasbora borapetensis

Rasbora pauciperforata ²³

Trigonostigma espei ²⁴

Trigonostigma heteromorpha ²⁵

Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki ²⁴

Katria katria ³

Pollenbuntbarsch ²⁶
Paratilapia polleni

Paretroplus menarambo ²⁷

Ptychochromis ²⁸

Ptychochromis grandidieri ²⁹

Bedotia ³⁰

Bedotia madagascariensis ³

Pachypanchax patriciae ³

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California Academy of Sciences, Rainforest Gallery

Largescale Four-eyed Fish 1 Anableps anableps

electric eel 4 Electrophorus electricus

Pirarucu 5 Arapaima gigas

black pacu 8 Colossoma macropomum

Atlantic Tarpon 10 Megalops atlanticus

Pacu 11 Metynnis argenteus

Myleus rubripinnis 12 Myloplus rubripinnis

silver arowana 8 Osteoglossum bicirrhosum

ripsaw catfish 13 Oxydoras niger

redtail catfish 14 Phractocephalus hemioliopterus

Neon 17 Paracheirodon axelrodi

Pollenbuntbarsch 26 Paratilapia polleni