This page was developed from the National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring website--an intranet site as yet not generally available to the public. The data are from a report on fishes of the National Park of American Samoa dated November 2, 2001.

The NPS Inventorying and Monitoring site is a work in progress at this time. It is expected to be on line to the public in a couple more years.

This webpage, "Fishes of the National Park of American Samoa," is simply an alphabetical list of the scientific names of fishes recorded from waters in and near the park. Each fish name is linked (click on the scientific name) to its individual Family. Within the Family, if a fish is illustrated click on the thumbnail image to link to the large photograph page..

There are also indexes to both Samoan and English common names of at least the fish families. Names in these indexes are linked to the Family pages (click on the name). Macrons are not included over the Samoan names since their transmission becomes garbled with different internet browsers.

This fish page is a work in progress. More illustrations will be added. Eventually it will be replaced by the National Park Service's Inventory and Monitoring website with live links to bibliographic sources for the records, and in some cases species distribution maps.

The principal source of the fishes listed here is from:
Wass, R. C. 1984. An annotated checklist of the fishes of American Samoa. U. S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA Technical Report NMFS SSRF-781. Rockville, Maryland.

The majority of illustrations were generously provided by Richard C. Wass, Office of Marine and Wildlife Resources, American Samoa Government.

Richard Wass is currently Refuge Manager of the Hakalau National Wildlife Refuge, Hilo Hawaii

Fish Base is an excellent website for detailed information about fishes worldwide.

National Park Service contacts: <bryan_harry@partner.nps.gov> or <peter_craig@nps.gov>
Page last updated 28 December, 2006