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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... List of bird species introduced to the Hawaiian Islands; List of bivalves of Hawaii; E. List of Hawaiian animals extinct in ...
Primary source for this list is Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database [1] unless otherwise stated. Common coquí; American bullfrog; Cane toad; Green and black poison dart frog; Greenhouse frog; Japanese wrinkled frog
Fauna of Hawaii — animals native to or naturalized in the Hawaiian Islands, part of the Oceania ecozone fauna. Subcategories This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total.
This is a list of the species that inhabit the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Except for researchers and volunteers living on Midway Atoll, Kure Atoll, and Tern Island, the leeward islands are uninhabited by people but home to at least 7000 species ranging from marine mammals, fish, sea turtles, birds and invertebrates. Many of these species ...
The scope of this list encompasses the entire Hawaiian Islands chain, from Kure Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands to the north, to the "Big Island" of Hawaii to the south. The list contains 337 species. Of them, 64 are or were endemic to the islands, 130 are vagrants and 52 were introduced by humans. Thirty-three of the 64 endemic ...
The Honolulu Zoo undertook a project in 1967 to re-create the Polynesian dog. The purpose behind such a project is to tell the story of the animal life of the Hawaiian Islands in a living Hawaiian exhibit. The dog is an important part of the Polynesians' contribution to this story. [8]
However, recent surveys suggest that their population is declining, specifically on Oʻahu, an island where they were once quite common. O’ahu is the most densely human-populated island, and the most consistently-developed area, in Hawai’i. Additionally, the island is also the location of the state capital (and largest city in Hawai’i ...
Formerly called the Sandwich Islands [a] by Europeans, the present name for the archipelago is derived from the name of its largest island, Hawaiʻi. The archipelago sits on the Pacific plate . The islands are exposed peaks of a great undersea mountain range known as the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain , formed by volcanic activity over the ...