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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 animal species introduced to the Hawaiian Islands, and that are currently still established. Amphibians Primary ...
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 ...
Located about 2,300 miles (3,680 km) from the nearest continental shore, the Hawaiian Islands are the most isolated group of islands on the planet. The plant and animal life of the Hawaiian archipelago is the result of early, very infrequent colonizations of arriving species and the slow evolution of those species—in isolation from the rest of the world's flora and fauna—over a period of ...
List of bird species introduced to the Hawaiian Islands; List of bivalves of Hawaii; E. List of Hawaiian animals extinct in the Holocene; F. List of fishes of Hawaii;
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.
The former range of the Hawaiian duck included all of the main Hawaiian islands except the islands of Lānaʻi and Kaho’olawe. [18] Hawaiian ducks were found on the hottest coasts with suitable ponds as well as in the mountains that were up to 7,000 feet (2,130 m) high.(Perkins 1903, cited in Banko 1987b). This includes low wetlands, river ...
Hawaii is the most isolated major land mass in the world and that isolation has led to very high rates of endemism. Uniquely adapted endemic species are often sensitive to competition from invasive species and Hawaii has had numerous extinctions (List of extinct animals of the Hawaiian Islands). While not the only cause, introduction of ...