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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 ...
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 ...
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Pages in category "Lists of fauna of Hawaii" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ... List of animal species introduced to the Hawaiian Islands;
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.
Twenty-one plant and fourteen animal taxa are native, of which three and five, respectively, are rare. [7] Native insects include Blackburn's sphinx moth (Manduca blackburni), the first Hawaiian insect to be listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), in 2003. The reserve includes critical habitat for the moth. [6]
A well-known Hawaii lifeguard who was killed in a shark attack while surfing off Oahu’s North Shore was a former professional surfer with acting credits to his name, friends and associates said ...
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.