tarponchik
Contributor
While reading the NYT Magazine, I came upon this statement: Of the 1,280 endangered animals and plants listed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 557 are from Hawaii, including the short-tailed albatross, the Hawaiian hoary bat and the Kauai cave wolf spider, as well as four species of turtle, six damselflies, two varieties of pond shrimp, four snails and seven kinds of yellow-faced bee.
I searched the net but could not find what species of damselfishes the author could have mentioned. The John P. Hoover's book on Hawaiian reef fishes lists only one species as rare, the Phoenix Island Damselfish; however, my understanding is that this fish does not reproduce in Hawaii and only occasionally swims in from across the Pacific. Does anyone know what this is about?
I searched the net but could not find what species of damselfishes the author could have mentioned. The John P. Hoover's book on Hawaiian reef fishes lists only one species as rare, the Phoenix Island Damselfish; however, my understanding is that this fish does not reproduce in Hawaii and only occasionally swims in from across the Pacific. Does anyone know what this is about?
