SWAP Species Fact Sheets
SWAP Species Fact Sheets
Our State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP) identifies the Species of Greatest Conservation Need for Hawaiʻi. Unfortunately, Hawaiʻi has the greatest number of listed species out of all of the United States. Our list of species is organized into different groups (e.g., mammals, birds, etc.), with each entry linking to a SWAP fact sheet. Each fact sheet provides information on the physical characteristics of the species, its distribution and abundance, its habitat, threats, and research needs. Some of our fact sheets describe multiple species, in larger taxonomic groups like genera, families, or orders.
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Mammals | Forest Birds | Raptors | Waterbirds | Migratory Birds | Seabirds | NWHI Passerines and Waterbirds | Terrestrial Invertebrates | Freshwater Fishes | Freshwater Invertebrates | Animals Associated with Anchialine Ponds | Marine Mammals | Marine Reptiles | Marine Fishes | Marine Invertebrates | Plants
Mammals
- ‘Ope‘ape‘a (Hawaiian Hoary Bat)
Forest Birds
- O‘ahu ‘elepaio
- Kaua‘i ‘elepaio
- Hawai‘i ‘elepaio
- Hawai‘i ‘amakihi
- Kaua‘i ‘amakihi
- O‘ahu ‘amakihi
- Anianiau (lesser ‘amakihi)
- Akekee (Kaua‘i ‘akepa)
- Hawai’i ‘akepa
- Maui ‘akepa
- ‘Oma‘o (Hawai‘i thrush)
- Puaiohi (small Kaua‘i thrush)
- Kama‘o (large Kaua‘i thrush)
- Oloma‘o (Moloka‘i thrush)
- ‘Akikiki (Kaua‘i creeper)
- Hawai‘i creeper
- Maui ‘alauahio (Maui creeper)
- ‘Alauahio (O‘ahu creeper)
- Kakawahie (Moloka‘i creeper)
- Kaua‘i nuku pu‘u
- Maui nuku pu‘u
- Kaua’i ‘o‘o
- Bishop’s ‘o‘o
- ‘Akiapola‘au
- Po‘ouli
- ‘Apapane
- ‘I‘iwi
- Palila
- Maui parrotbill
- ‘Akohekohe (crested honeycreeper)
- ‘O‘u
- Kaua‘i ‘akialoa
- ‘Alala (Hawaiian crow)
Raptors
Waterbirds
- Koloa maoli (Hawaiian duck)
- ‘Alae ‘ula (Hawaiian common moorhen)
- ‘Alae ke‘o ke‘o (Hawaiian coot)
- Nene (Hawaiian goose)
- Ae‘o (Hawaiian stilt)
- Auku‘u (Black-crowned night heron)
Migratory Birds
- Kolea (Pacific golden plover)
- ‘Akekeke (Ruddy turnstone)
- Koloa mapu (Northern pintail)
- Koloa moha (Northern shoveler)
- Lesser scaup
- Huna kai (Sanderling)
- ‘Ulili (Wandering tattler)
- American wigeon
- Kioea (Bristle-thighed curlew)
Seabirds
- Moli (Laysan albatross)
- Ka‘upu (Black-footed albatross)
- Koa‘e kea (White-tailed tropicbird)
- Koa‘e ‘ula (Red-tailed tropicbird)
- ‘Ou (Bulwer’s petrel)
- Bonin petrel
- ‘Ua‘u (Hawaiian petrel)
- ‘Ake‘ake (Band-rumped storm petrel)
- Tristram’s (sooty) storm petrel
- ‘Ua‘u kani (Wedge-tailed shearwater)
- ‘A‘o (Newell’s shearwater)
- Christmas shearwater
- Manu-o-ku (White (fairy) tern)
- ‘Ewa‘ewa (Sooty tern)
- Pakalakala (Gray-backed tern)
- Noio (Hawaiian black noddy)
- Noio-koha (Brown noddy)
- Blue-gray noddy
- ‘A (Masked (blue-faced) booby)
- ‘A (Brown booby)
- ‘A (Red-footed booby)
- ‘Iwa (Great frigatebird)
- Short-tailed albatross (migratory)
NWHI Passerines and Waterbirds
Terrestrial Invertebrates
- Blackburn’s sphinx moth
- O‘ahu tree snails fact sheet (also see our kāhuli family and species pages)
- Kaua‘i cave arthropods
- Nalo meli maoli (yellow-faced bees)
- Pinapinao (damselflies)
- Orange-black damselfly (Megalagrion xanthomelas)
- Oceanic Hawaiian damselfly (Megalagrion oceanicum)
- Blackline Hawaiian damselfly (Megalagrion nigrohamatum nigrolineatum)
- Crimson Hawaiian damselfly (Megalagrion leptodemas)
- Flying earwig Hawaiian damselfly (Megalagrion nesiotes)
- Pacific Hawaiian damselfly (Megalagrion pacificum)
- Pomace flies (Drosophilidae)
- Beach flies
The following fact sheets describe additional terrestrial invertebrates at the taxonomic level of Order:
- Stylommatophora, Archaeogastropoda (land snails)
- Acari (mites and ticks)
- Araneae (spiders)
- Pseudoscorpionida
- Archaeognatha (bristlethighs)
- Coleoptera (beetles)
- Collembola (springtails)
- Dermaptera (earwigs)
- Diptera (true flies)
- Heteroptera (true bugs)
- Homoptera (aphids, plant/leaf hoppers, psyllids, mealybugs, etc.)
- Hymenoptera (bees and wasps)
- Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies)
- Neuroptera (lacewings, antlions)
- Odonata (damselflies, dragonflies)
- Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, katydids)
- Phthiraptera (lice)
- Psocoptera (bark lice, psocids)
- Siphonaptera (fleas)
- Thysanoptera (thrips)
- Isopoda (pillbugs, sowbugs)
- Geophilomorpha, Lithobimorpha (centipedes)
- Polyxenida, Spirostreptida (millipedes)
Freshwater Fishes
Freshwater Invertebrates
- Clithon (pipiwai) and Neritilia snails
- Erinna and Lymnaea snails
- Ferressia snail
- Hapawai, Hihiwai
- Hawaiian prawn – Opae ‘oeha‘a
- Mountain shrimp – Opae kala‘ole
- Newcomb’s snail
Animals Associated with Anchialine Ponds
Marine Mammals
- Hawaiian monk seal
- Humpback whale
- Other baleen whales
- Bottlenose dolphin
- False killer whale
- Short-finned pilot whale
- Spinner dolphin
- Spotted dolphin
- Other toothed whales
Marine Reptiles
- Green sea turtle
- Hawksbill turtle
- Leatherback turtle
- Loggerhead turtle
- Olive ridley turtle
- Yellow-bellied sea snake
Marine Fishes
- Active reef fishes
- Baitfishes
- Bottomfishes
- Cryptic reef fishes
- Deep fishes
- Eels
- Flagtail – aholehole
- Flatfishes
- Hawaiian ladyfish
- Kumu – goatfish
- Parrotfishes – uhu
- Sex changing reef fishes
- Sharks and rays
- Seahorses and pipefishes
Marine Invertebrates
- Bivalves
- Black corals
- Spiny lobster
- Chitons
- Echinoderms
- Hawaiian oyster
- Limpets – opihi
- Miscellaneous filter feeders
- Nudibranchs
- Octopus and squid
- Other anthozoans
- Other crabs and shrimp
- Marine snails
- Black reef sponge
- Stony corals
- Marine worms
Plants: Genetic Safety Net Species
- Abutilon eremitopetalum
- Achyranthes mutica
- Alectryon macrococcus var. auwahiensis
- Amaranthus brownii
- Astelia waialealae
- Bidens hillebrandiana subsp. hillebrandiana
- Brighamia insignis
- Caesalpinia kavaiensis
- Chamaesyce eleanoriae
- Clermontia oblongifolia ssp. brevipes
- Clermontia oblongifolia subsp. mauiensis
- Clermontia peleana ssp. peleana
- Clermontia pyrularia
- Cyanea asarifolia
- Cyanea crispa
- Cyanea dunbariae
- Cyanea eleeleensis
- Cyanea gibsonii
- Cyanea glabra
- Cyanea grimesiana subsp. grimesiana
- Cyanea grimesiana subsp. obatae
- Cyanea hamatiflora subsp. carlsonii
- Cyanea kolekoleensis
- Cyanea kuhihewa
- Cyanea lobata
- Cyanea magnicalyx
- Cyanea maritae
- Cyanea munroi
- Cyanea obtusa
- Cyanea pinnatifida
- Cyanea platyphylla
- Cyanea procera
- Cyanea profuga
- Cyanea purpurellifolia
- Cyanea shipmanii
- Cyanea solanacea
- Cyanea stictophylla
- Cyanea st-johnii
- Cyanea superba subsp. superba
- Cyanea truncata
- Cyanea undulata
- Cyperus trachysanthos
- Cyrtandra gracilis
- Cyrtandra halawensis
- Cyrtandra hematos
- Cyrtandra kaulantha
- Cyrtandra paliku
- Cyrtandra polyantha
- Cyrtandra sessilis
- Cyrtandra viridiflora
- Cyrtandra waiolani
- Delissea niihauensis subsp. kauaiensis
- Delissea rhytidosperma
- Delissea rivularis
- Delissea subcordata
- Delissea undulata subsp. undulata
- Diellia erecta f. alexandri
- Diellia mannii
- Diellia pallida
- Diplazium molokaiense
- Doryopteris angelica
- Dryopteris podosorus var. podosorus
- Dubautia kenwoodii
- Dubautia pauciflorula
- Gahnia lanaiensis
- Gardenia brighamii
- Gouania vitifolia
- Hedyotis cookiana
- Hedyotis coriacea
- Hedyotis haupuensis
- Hedyotis mannii
- Hedyotis schlechtendahliana var. remyi
- Hedyotis st.-johnii
- Hesperomannia arbuscula
- Hibiscadelphus distans
- Hibiscadelphus giffardianus
- Hibiscadelphus hualalaiensis
- Hibiscadelphus woodii
- Hibiscus brackenridgei subsp. mokuleianus
- Hibiscus brackenridgei subsp. molokaiana
- Hibiscus clayi
- Huperzia mannii
- Huperzia nutans
- Huperzia stemmermanniae
- Isodendrion pyrifolium
- Kanaloa kahoolawensis
- Kokia cookei
- Kokia drynarioides
- Labordia cyrtandrae
- Labordia lydgatei
- Labordia sp. nov
- Labordia tinifolia var. wahiawaensis
- Labordia triflora
- Lobelia monostachya
- Lysimachia filifolia
- Lysimachia iniki
- Lysimachia lydgatei
- Lysimachia maxima
- Lysimachia pendens
- Lysimachia scopulensis
- Melicope adscendens
- Melicope balloui
- Melicope cruciata
- Melicope degeneri
- Melicope haupuensis
- Melicope hiiakae
- Melicope knudsenii
- Melicope lydgatei
- Melicope mucronulata
- Melicope quadrangularis
- Melicope zahlbruckneri
- Myrsine mezii
- Neraudia ovata
- Nothocestrum peltatum
- Panicum niihauense
- Peperomia subpetiolata
- Phyllostegia brevidens
- Phyllostegia hirsuta
- Phyllostegia hispida
- Phyllostegia kaalaensis
- Phyllostegia knudsenii
- Phyllostegia mannii
- Phyllostegia mollis
- Phyllostegia parviflora var. glabriuscula
- Phyllostegia parviflora var. lydgatei
- Phyllostegia racemosa
- Phyllostegia renovans
- Phyllostegia waimeae
- Phyllostegia warshaueri
- Phyllostegia wawrana
- Pittosporum halophilum
- Platanthera holochila
- Pritchardia affinis
- Pritchardia aylmer-robinsonii
- Pritchardia glabrata
- Prtichardia munroi
- Pritchardia schattaueri
- Pritchardia viscosa
- Psychotria grandiflora
- Psychotria hexandra subsp. oahuensis
- Remya mauiensis
- Remya montgomeryi
- Schiedea adamantis
- Schiedea attenuata
- Schiedea hawaiiensis
- Schiedea helleri
- Schiedea jacobii
- Schiedea kaalae
- Schiedea kauaiensis
- Schiedea nuttallii
- Schiedea obovata
- Schiedea spergulina var. leiopoda
- Schiedea viscosa
- Sesbania tomentosa
- Sicyos alba
- Sicyos lanceoloideus
- Silene alexandri
- Silene hawaiiensis
- Silene lanceolata
- Solanum incompletum
- Solanum sandwicense
- Stenogyne bifida
- Stenogyne campanulata
- Stenogyne kanehoana
- Tetramolopium lepidotum subsp. lepidotum
- Tetramolopium remyi
- Tetraplasandra bisattenuata
- Tetraplasandra flynii
- Trematolobelia singularis
- Urera kaalae
- Vicia menziesii
- Viola helenae
- Viola kauaiensis var. wahiawaensis
- Viola lanaiensis
- Wikstroemia skottsbergiana
- Xylosma crenatum
- Zanthoxylum dipetalum var. tomentosum