If you want to know the list of available shells on your macOS (Catalina, Mojave, Big Sur) you can try the command cat /etc/shells, this will print list of all shells that are available,
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Terminal command to get available shells in macOS
mac:~ code2care$ cat /etc/shells
# List of acceptable shells for chpass(1).
# Ftpd will not allow users to connect who are not using
# one of these shells.
/bin/bash
/bin/csh
/bin/dash
/bin/ksh
/bin/sh
/bin/tcsh
/bin/zsh
✏️ Z Shell (Zsh) is the default. shell shipped since macOS Catalina and BigSur
How to switch between shells in macOS?
Simply type the shell name on the prompt.
code2care@mac ~ % bash
The default interactive shell is now zsh.
To update your account to use zsh, please run `chsh -s /bin/zsh`.
For more details, please visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT208050.
bash-3.2$ csh
[mac:~] code2care% dash
$ ksh
$ sh
sh-3.2$ tcsh
[mac:~] code2care% zsh
code2care@mac ~ %
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