How to use this site. The initial page is a current list of scientific names, of species occurring within the park -- each name linked to a species by family. (Additional lists are included by common names or a list by Hawaiian names.) If illustrations are available, thumbnail pictures on the family list pages link to enlarged photos.

Or, you can browse pages of illustrations arranged by family. Holding your curser on the image will pop up the plant name. (There, clicking on any image jumps to the enlarged photo).

Plate 1. Zoanthids to stoney corals
Plate 2. Worms to cone shells
Plate 3. Sea slugs to crabs
Plate 4. Starfish to sea cucumbers

The principal sources of the plants listed here are from:

Brock, J. H. and R. E. Brock. 1974. The Marine Fauna of the Coast of Northern Kona, Hawaii. University of Hawaii Sea Grant Program Sea Grant Advisory Report UNIHI-SEAGRANT-AR-74-02. 30 pp., (view this report in pdf),

Maciolek, J. A. and R. E. Brock. 1974. Aquatic Survey of the Kona Coast Ponds, Hawaii Island. University of Hawaii Sea Grant Program Sea Grant Advisory Report UNIHI-SEAGRANT-AR-74-04. 73 pp., (view this report in pdf), and

Parrish, J., G. Smith, and J. Norris. 1990. Resources of the marine waters of Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park. Cooperative National Park Resources Study Unit, Technical Report 74. Dept of Botany, Univ of Hawaii. Honolulu. 118 pp. (download this report in pdf)

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 Kalaupapa National Historical Park dated 7 March 2007.

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 few more years.

An excellent source of superb illustrations of Hawaii's marine invertebrates is Keoki and Yuko Stender's website: http://www.marinelifephotography.com/

National Park Service contacts: <harryb001@hawaii.rr.com> or <sally_beavers@nps.gov>
Page last updated 16 October 2012.