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Marine Invertebrates of Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common Name
Scientific Name
banded coral shrimp    Stenopus hispidus (Olivier, 1812)
banded urchin   Echinothrix calamaris (Pallas, 1774)
black sea cucumber
Holothuria atra
blue octocoral    Anthelia edmondsoni (Verrill, 1928)
blue-black urchin    Echinothrix diadema (Linnaeus, 1758)
blue-gray zoanthuid   Palythoa tuberculosa (Esper, 1791)
brittlestar Ophiocoma sp.
cauliflower coral Pocillopora meandrina
collector urchin    Tripneustes gratilla (Linnaeus, 1758)
common wire coral    Cirrhipathes anguina Dana, 1846
crown-of-thorns starfish    Acanthaster planci
cushion star    Culcita novaeguineae (Muller & Troschel, 1842)
finger coral Porites compressa
glass anemone
Aiptasia pulchella
Hawaiian spiky sea cucumber   
Stichopus
hydroid    Ostromouvia horii
lace coral    Pocillopora damicornis
lobe coral    Porites lobata
long-spined urchin   Diadema paucispina (A. Agassiz, 1863)
mushroom coral    Fungia
oblong urchin    Echinometra oblonga (de Blainville, 1826)
red pencil urchin    Heterocentrotus mammillatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
rice coral    Montipora verrucosa
rock-boring urchin    Echinometra mathaei
sea cucumber    Holothuria
small red alpheid shrimp   Metabetaeus lohena
spotted linckia    Linckia multiflora (Lamarck, 1816)
starfish    Linckia
white-spotted sea cucumber    Actinopyga mauritiana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
zoanthus Zoanthus