Correctly pronouncing the reef triggerfish’s Hawaiian name has long ... parasites from their fellow reef fish. Another difference between the two species is their main habitat.

For decades commercial aquarium collectors in Hawaii routinely extracted hundreds of thousands of endemic and indigenous Hawaiian reef fish and invertebrates a year ... to the protection of endangered ...

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s study of Hawaii’s deep-sea coral reefs, 43 percent of the documented fish species were endemic, far greater than the 17 ...

Some reef fish have the unexpected ability to move their jaws from side to side, biologists at the University of California, ...

and providing a safe environment for many fish and other aquatic species. Approximately one-fourth of the plants, fish and invertebrates found in Hawaiian coral reefs are endemic to Hawai‘i. Coral ...

The Pacific Island Heritage National Marine Monument, about 750 miles west of Hawaii, is dotted by coral reefs and atolls, with species of fish, marine mammals and birds rarely found anywhere else.