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This species comes in a dark purple-brown color. They range in different sizes depending how old it gets. The small Hawaiian mussels grow up to 1/4 to 1/2 inches long but the adult mussel grows up to 1 inch or more in brackish waters. The largest Hawaiian mussels are sometimes called mahawele. They are to only eat phytoplankton.
Hawaiian language name Genus Common name Scientific name Family Common family name Endemic 'Olepe papaua [1]: 182 Arca: Ventricose ark shell Arca ventricosa: Arcidae: Ark clam N Nahawele 'ili 'ili [1]: 182 Bronchriatus: Hawaiian mussel Bronchriatus crebristriatus: Mytilidae: Mussel Y [1]: 182 Pinna: Prickly pin clam Pinna muricata: Pinnidae ...
Note that the common names of edible bivalves can be misleading, in that not all species known as "cockles" "oysters", "mussels", etc., are closely related. Ark clams , including: Blood cockle; Senilia senilis; Many species of true mussels, family Mytilidae, including: Blue mussels. Blue mussel; California mussel; Mediterranean mussel; Mytilus ...
The nene is the official state bird of Hawaii. This list of birds of Hawaii is a comprehensive listing of all the bird species seen naturally in the U.S. state of Hawaii as determined by Robert L. and Peter Pyle of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, and modified by subsequent taxonomic changes. [1] [2]
This list of bird species introduced to the Hawaiian Islands includes only those species known to have established self-sustaining breeding populations as a direct or indirect result of human intervention. A complete list of all non-native species ever imported to the islands, including those that never became established, would be much longer.
Eight of the extinct bird species were found in Hawaii, including the Po`ouli, which was last seen in 2004. The Po`ouli is the most recently seen species of all 21 animals on the list.
Schistocerca nitens (gray bird grasshopper) Sepedomerus macropus (liverfluke snail predator fly) [34] Sepedon aenescens (snail-killing fly) [35] Simosyrphus grandicornis (common hover fly) Solenopsis papuana (Papuan thief ant) [36] [37] Sophonia orientalis (two-spotted leafhopper) [38] Tapinoma melanocephalum (ghost ant) Trichomyrmex destructor ...
Fauna of Hawaii — animals native to or naturalized in the Hawaiian Islands, ... Birds of Hawaii (1 C, 17 P) E. Endemic fauna of Hawaii (8 C, 229 P) F.