Scientific Fish Names
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(Linked to Species Profile) |
Hawaiian Name | Common Name | TSN |
| Abudefduf abdominalis | mamo | banded damselfish or Hawaiian sargent |
170048 |
| Abudefduf sordidus | mamo | Blackspot sergeant |
170049 |
| Acanthurus achilles | achilles tang |
paku'iku'i | 172261 |
| Acanthurus blochii | ringtail or whitetail surgeonfish |
pualu | 172275 |
| Acanthurus dussumieri | eyestripe surgeonfish    | palani | 172260 |
| Acanthurus guttatus | whitespotted surgeonfish    | 'api | 172263 |
| Acanthurus leucopareius | whitebar or whitethroated surgeonfish |
maikoiko | 172264 |
| Acanthurus nigricans | whitecheek surgeonfish |
whitecheek surgeonfish |
172276 |
| Acanthurus nigrofuscus | brown surgeonfish    | brown surgeonfish    | 172266 |
| Acanthurus nigroris | maiko | bluelined surgeonfish    | 172267 |
| Acanthurus olivaceus | na'ena'e | orangespot or orangeband tang |
172268 |
| Acanthurus thompsoni | Thompson's surgeonfish    | 172269 | |
| Acanthurus sandvicensis | manini | convict tang |
172257 |
| Acanthurus triostegus sandvicensis | manini | convict tang |
172258 |
| Acanthurus xanthopterus | pualu | yellowfin surgeonfish    | 172259 |
| Adioryx | squirrelfish    | 166247 | |
| Aetobatus narinari | hinimanu | spotted eagle ray |
160978 |
| Aluterus scriptus | loulu | scrawled filefish |
173134 |
| Anampses cuvieri | 'opule | pearl wrasse |
170601 |
| Anthias thompsoni | Thompson's anthias    | 167776 | |
| Aphareus furca (Lacepede, 1802) | -4597489 | ||
| Aphareus furcatus | wahanui | blue or smalltooth jobfish |
168930 |
| Apogon | upapalu | cardinalfishes |
168197 |
| Apogon taeniaphorus | upapalu | ninestripe cardinalfish |
168282 |
| Apogon taeniopterus Bennett, 1835 | upapalu | ninestripe or bandfin cardinalfish    | -4597487 |
| Aprion virescens | uku | blue-gray snapper or green jobfish |
168926 |
| Arothron hispidus | o'opu hue | stripebelly puffer |
173309 |
| Arothron meleagris | o'opu hue | spotted puffer |
173311 |
| Aulostomus chinensis | nunu | trumpetfish or painted flutemouth |
166412 |
| Balistes fuscus | =P. fuscus?    | 173200 | |
| Bathygobius cocosensis | Cocos frillfin goby |
'o'opu ohune | 553398 |
| Bathygobius fuscus | brown or dusky frillfin goby |
171821 | |
| Bodianus bilunulatus | 'a'awa | Hawaiian hogfish |
170485 |
| Bothus mancus | paki'i | tropical or flowery flounder |
172763 |
| Callyodon | parrotfishes |
170897 | |
| Calotomus |     | 170871 | |
| Cantherhines | o'ili | filefish    | 173156 |
| Cantherhines sandwichiensis | 'o'ili lepa | squaretail filefish    | 173160 |
| Canthigaster amboinensis | pu'u ola'i spotted toby |
173321 | |
| Canthigaster coronata |     | 173323 | |
| Canthigaster jactator | whitespotted toby |
173326 | |
| Carangoides ferdau | ulua | barred jack    | 168756 |
| Carangoides orthogrammus | ulua | island jack |
168759 |
| Caranx | |
jacks and crevallies | 168605 |
| Caranx ferdau | ulua | yellowspotted crevalle or barred
jack |
168647 |
| Caranx ignobilis | ulua aukea | giant trevally |
168618 |
| Caranx melampygus | 'omilu | black ulua, bluefin trevally |
168619 |
| Centropyge fisheri | Fisher's angelfish    | 169612 | |
| Centropyge potteri | Potter's angelfish |
169615 | |
| Cephalopholis argus | roi | peacock grouper or hind |
167752 |
| Chaetodon auriga | kikakapu | threadfin butterflyfish |
169564 |
| Chaetodon ephippium | kikakapu | blackclothed or saddleback butterflyfish |
169567 |
| Chaetodon fremblii | kikakapu | bluestriped butterflyfish |
169568 |
| Chaetodon kleinii | lauhau | blacklip or whitespotted butterflyfish |
169569 |
| Chaetodon lineolatus | kikakapu | lined butterflyfish |
169570 |
| Chaetodon lunula | kikakapu | raccoon butterflyfish |
169571 |
| Chaetodon miliaris | lau wiliwili | milletseed butterflyfish |
169572 |
| Chaetodon multicinctus | kikikapu | multiband or pebbled butterflyfish |
169573 |
| Chaetodon ornatissimus | kikikapu | ornate butterflyfish |
169580 |
| Chaetodon quadrimaculatus | lauhau | fourspot butterflyfish |
169574 |
| Chaetodon unimaculatus | kikikapu | onespot or teardrop coralfish |
169578 |
| Chanos chanos | awa | milkfish |
162838 |
| Cheilinus unifasciatus | ringtail wrasse |
170627 | |
| Cheilio inermis | cigar wrasse |
170616 | |
| Chlorurus sordidus | bullethead parrotfish |
uhu | -501093 |
| Chromis agilis | agile chromis |
170088 | |
| Chromis hanui | chocolate-dip chromis    | 170089 | |
| Chromis ovalis | oval chromis    | 170091 | |
| Chromis vanderbilti | blackfin chromis    | 170094 | |
| Chromis verater | threespot chromis   | 170096 | |
| Cirrhitops fasciatus | piliko'a | redbarred hawkfish    | 170233 |
| Cirrhitus pinnulatus | po'opa'a | redspotted hawkfish |
170235 |
| Cirripectus |     | 171211 | |
| Cirripectus vanderbilti | scarface blenny |
171216 | |
| Conger cinereus | puhi-uha | mustache conger    | 161328 |
| Conger cinereus marginatus | puhi-uha | white eel    | 161329 |
| Coris flavovittata | yellowstriped coris    | 170668 | |
| Coris gaimardi | yellowtail coris    | 170671 | |
| Coris venusta | elegant coris    | 170674 | |
| Ctenochaetus hawaiiensis | black or chevron tang |
172306 | |
| Ctenochaetus strigosus | kole | gold ring or bristletoothed surgeonfish |
172307 |
| Cymolutes lecluse | Hawaiian knifefish, brownlined
wrasse |
170761 | |
| Cyprinus carpio | European carp common carp |
163344 | |
| Dascyllus albisella | 'alo'iloi | spot dascyllus |
170122 |
| Decapterus macarellus | 'opelu | mackerel scad |
168724 |
| Diodon hystrix | porcupinefish |
173391 | |
| Echidna nebulosa | puhi kapa | snowflake or white moray |
161176 |
| Eleotris sandwicensis | Akupa sleeper |
'o'opu, 'akupa | 171930 |
| Encrasicholina purpurea | nehu | Hawaiian anchovy |
551384 |
| Fistularia commersoni | nunu peke | cornetfish    | 166419 |
| Forcipiger | lau wiliwili nukunuku 'oi'oi | longnose butterflyfish   | 169661 |
| Gambusia affinis | mosquitofish western mosquitofish |
165878 | |
| Gnathanodon speciosus | ulua pa'opa'o | yellow jack or golden travally |
168753 |
| Gomphosus varius | hinalea i'i'wi | bird wrasse |
170652 |
| Gymnomuraena zebra | puhi | zebra moray    | 161172 |
| Gymnothorax | puhi | common morays |
161185 |
| Gymnothorax flavimarginatus | puhi paka | yellowedged moray |
161195 |
| Gymnothorax javanicus | puhi | giant moray    | 161208 |
| Gymnothorax meleagris | puhi 'oni'o | whitemouth or spotted
moray |
161210 |
| Gymnothorax pictus | puhi | painted moray painted reef eel |
161196 |
| Gymnothorax undulatus | puhi lau milo | common hawaiian or leopard moray |
161215 |
| Halichoeres ornatissimus | ohua | ornate wrasse | 170512 |
| Hemiramphus | iheihe | halfbeak    | 165459 |
| Hemitaurichthys polylepis | pyramid butterflyfish    | 169658 | |
| Hemitaurichthys thompsoni | Thompson's butterflyfish    | 169659 | |
| Heniochus diphreutes | Pennantfish    | 169651 | |
| Heteropriacanthus cruentatus | 'aweoweo | glasseye    | 168181 |
| Holacanthus arcuatus | bandit angelfish |
169629 | |
| Istiblennius zebra | zebra rockskipper    | pao'o | 171230 |
| Kuhlia sandvicensis | aholehole | Hawaiian flagtail |
168085 |
| Kyphosus | nenue | rudderfish |
169504 |
| Labroides phthirophagus | reef 6 et al |  Hawaiian cleaner wrasse   | 170656 |
| Lutjanus fulvus | to'au | blacktail snapper | 168863 |
| Lutjanus kasmira | ta'ape | bluestripe snapper |
168862 |
| Macropharyngodon geoffroyi |     | 170661 | |
| Malacanthus brevirostris | maka'a | flagtail tilefish    | 168549 |
| Malacanthus hoedtii |     | 168552 | |
| Melichthys niger | black durgon |
173174 | |
| Melichthys vidua | humhumu hiukoli pinktail triggerfish |
173175 | |
| Monotaxis grandoculis | mu | bigeye emperor |
169170 |
| Mugil cephalus | 'ama'ama | striped mullet |
170335 |
| Mulloidichthys flavolineatus | weke'a | yellowstripe goatfish |
169409 |
| Mulloidichthys vanicolensis | weke'ula | vanikolo or yellowfin goatfish |
169411 |
| Myripristis | u'u | soldierfish   | 166210 |
| Naso | nosefishes unicornfishes |
172288 | |
| Naso hexacanthus | kala lolo, 'opelu kala | sleek unicornfish |
172294 |
| Naso lituratus | umaumalei | orangespine unicornfish    | 172297 |
| Naso unicornis | kala | brown or bluespine unicornfish |
172289 |
| Neomyxus chaptalii | uouoa | sharpnose mullet |
553299 |
| Neoniphon sammara | 'ala'ihi | spotfin squirrelfish    | 166270 |
| Novaculichthys taeniourus | clown or rockmover wrasse |
170706 | |
| Ostracion meleagris | pahu | spotted trunkfish |
173252 |
| Ostracion meleagris camurum Jenkins, 1901 | pahu | spotted trunkfish |
-4597490 |
| Oxyurichthys lonchotus |     | 171946 | |
| Paracirrhites arcatus | piliko'a | whitelined or arc-eye hawkfish |
170228 |
| Paracirrhites forsteri | hilu piliko'a | blackside hawkfish |
170227 |
| Parupeneus bifasciatus | munu | doublebar goatfish    | 169450 |
| Parupeneus cyclostomus | moano kea | blue goatfish    | 169456 |
| Parupeneus multifasciatus | moano | manybar goatfish    | 169453 |
| Parupeneus pleurostigma | malu | sidestripe goatfish | 169451 |
| Parupeneus porphyreus | kumu | whitesaddle goatfish    | 169452 |
| Pervagor spilosoma | 'o'ili'uwi'uwi | fantail filefish    | 173196 |
| Plagiotremus |     | 171206 | |
| Plectroglyphidodon imparipennis | bright-eye damselfish |
170129 | |
| Plectroglyphidodon johnstonianus | blue-eye damselfish    | 170131 | |
| Plectroglyphidodon sindonis | rock damselfish    | 170134 | |
| Poecilia reticulata | guppy millions fish rainbowfish |
165903 | |
| Poecilia vittata | Cuban limia |
165911 | |
| Polydactylus sexfilis | moi | six-fringed threadfin    | 170453 |
| Pseudanthias thompsoni (Fowler, 1923) | = A. thompsoni | Thompson's anthias     | -4597486 |
| Pseudocheilinus evanidus | disappearing wrasse    | 170629 | |
| Pseudocheilinus octotaenia | eightstripe wrasse   | 170630 | |
| Pseudocheilinus tetrataenia | fourstripe wrasse    | 170631 | |
| Pseudojuloides cerasinus | smalltail wrasse    | 170693 | |
| Pseudobalistes fuscus | blue or yellowspotted triggerfish |
173199 | |
| Rhinecanthus rectangulus | humuhumu nukunuku apua'a | reef trigerfish    | 173206 |
| Sargocentron | 'ala'ihi | squirrelfish    | 166257 |
| Sargocentron xantherythrum | 'ala'ihi | Hawaiian squirrelfish |
-501344 |
| Saurida | 'ulae | lizardfish    | 162407 |
| Scarus | parrotfishes |
170810 | |
| Scarus perspicillatus | spectacled parrotfish    | uhu uli uli, ulu 'ahu'ula | 170817 |
| Scarus psittacus | palenose parrotfish |
uhu | 170855 |
| Scarus rubroviolaceus | redlip parrotfish    | palukaluka | 170880 |
| Scarus sordidus | =C. sordidus? |
uhu | 170823 |
| Scomberesocidae | sauries, saury pikes |
165607 | |
| Scomberoides lysan | lai | leatherback |
168764 |
| Selar crumenophthalmus | akule | bigeye scad |
168677 |
| Seriola dumerili | kahala | greater amberjack |
168689 |
| Sphyraena barracuda | kaku | great barracuda |
170429 |
| Stegastes fasciolatus | Pacific gregory    | 170191 | |
| Stethojulis balteata | 'omaka | belted wrasse |
170634 |
| Stolephorus purpureus | nehu | Hawaiian anchovy    | 161867 |
| Sufflamen bursa | humuhumu lei | lei triggerfish    | 173210 |
| Sufflamen frenatus | humuhumu mimi | bridled triggerfish |
173212 |
| Taenianotus triacanthus | leaf scorpionfish    | 166904 | |
| Thalassoma |     | 170567 | |
| Thalassoma ballieui | gray or blacktail wrasse |
hinalea lauhine | 170569 |
| Thalassoma duperreyi | saddle wrasse |
hinalea lauwili | 170571 |
| Thalassoma purpureum | rainbow or surge wrasse |
hou | 170580 |
| Thalassoma trilobatum | christmas wrasse |
'awela | 170595 |
| Trachiurops crumenophthalmus | akule | bigeye scad |
168767 |
| Xanthichthys auromarginatus | guilded triggerfish    | 173188 | |
| Zanclus cornutus | kihikihi | Moorish idol    | 172311 |
| Zebrasoma flavescens | lau'ipala | yellow tang |
172314 |
| Zebrasoma veliferum | maneoneo | sailfin tang |
172315 |