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ʻĀhihi-Kīnaʻu Natural Area Reserve. Established in 1973, ʻĀhihi-Kīnaʻu Natural Area Reserve includes a coastal lava field and surrounding waters on the southwest coast of the island of Maui, Hawaii. It consists of 1,238 acres (501 ha) on land and 807 acres (327 ha) of ocean along 3 miles (4.8 km) of Maui's southwestern coastline.
Black purse shell Isognocom californicum: Isognomonidae: Purse shell N Nahawele: 186 Isognomon: Brown purse shell Isognocom perna: Isognomonidae: Purse shell N : 187 Haumea: Judd's scallop Haumea juddi: Pectinidae: Scallop Y : 187 Lamaria: Fragile file shell Lamaria fragilis: Limidae: File shell N : 188 Spondylus: Spiny oyster
At the southeastern end of the archipelago, the eight "main islands" are (from the northwest to southeast) Niʻihau, Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, Kahoʻolawe, Maui, and Hawaiʻi. The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands include many atolls, and reefs. Due to Hawaii's isolation 30% of the fish are endemic (unique to the island chain). [1]
Red pencil urchin – Papahānaumokuākea. The Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (PMNM) (roughly / p ɑː p ɑː ˈ h ɑː n aʊ m oʊ k u ˌ ɑː k eɪ. ə / [2]) is a World Heritage listed U.S. National Monument encompassing 583,000 square miles (1,510,000 km 2) of ocean waters, including ten islands and atolls of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Puka shells are naturally occurring bead -like objects which can be found on some beaches in Hawaii or other places, however, they all originate from the back of some sort of sea critter. Each one is the beach-worn apex of a cone snail. Puka is the Hawaiian word for "hole" and refers to the naturally occurring hole in the middle of these ...
Coordinates: 21.0111°N 156.6422°W. Slaughterhouse Beach (Mokuleʻia) Slaughterhouse Beach or "Mokuleʻia Beach," is a sand beach in Maui. It is located off of Rte. 30 in Mokuleʻia Bay, directly east of Fleming Beach and directly west of Honolua Bay. [1][2] The beach is a part of the Honolua-Mokuleʻia Bay Marine Life Conservation District.
Over 250 different species of marine life are found in the 300,000 acres (120,000 ha) of lagoon and surrounding waters. The critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals raise their pups on the beaches, relying on the atoll's reef fish, squid, octopus and crustaceans. Green sea turtles, another threatened species, occasionally nest on the island ...
In the Cape Fear region, according to Visit North Carolina, Carolina Beach is a great place for finding Moon Snail shells. The Moon Snail has a circular shell and is also called a shark eye. It ...