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Commonly caught fish in Hawaiian waters for poke, found at local seafood counters include (alternate Japanese names are indicated in parentheses): [1] [2] [3] ʻAhi pālaha: albacore tuna (tombo) ʻAhi: bigeye tuna (mebachi) ʻAhi: yellowfin tuna (kihada) Aku: skipjack tuna (katsuo) Aʻu: blue marlin (kajiki), striped marlin (nairagi ...
Due to Hawaii's isolation 30% of the fish are endemic (unique to the island chain). [1] The Hawaiian Islands comprise 137 islands and atolls, with a land area of 6,423.4 square miles (16,636.5 km 2). [2] This archipelago and its oceans are physiographically and ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania.
Parupeneus multifasciatus, the manybar goatfish, is a species of goatfish native to the eastern Indian Ocean Pacific Ocean where it is found from Christmas Island to the Hawaiian Islands and from southern Japan to Lord Howe Island. Its Hawaiian name is moano-nui-ka-lehua (meaning "great moano of the lehua"), and the juveniles are called 'ahua ...
Pages in category "Fish of Hawaii" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 200 total. ... Island trevally; J. Japanese amberjack; K. Kuhlia sandvicensis;
Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, it can be found in marine, fresh, and brackish waters around the coast. Due to this capability of migrating between different marine environments, it is considered amphidromous. [2] Eleotris sandwicensis is a dorso-ventrally flattened fish, almost like a smaller catfish. It varies in color, but is most commonly ...
The fish pushes forward with the pectoral fins while detaching the pelvic disk and rapidly undulating the body from side to side. This mechanism allows L. concolor to climb faster and reach further upstream compared to the Awaous Guamensis and other freshwater fish found in Hawaii.
This is a list of bivalves of Hawaii. 139 species of bivalves are found in Hawaiian waters, of which 66 are endemic. [1] Bivalves Hawaiian language name Genus Common ...
Encrasicholina punctifer, known as the buccaneer anchovy, or in Hawaiian as nehu, is an anchovy of the family Engraulidae that is widespread in the Indo-Pacific.