SEALIFE

Pākuʻikuʻi — the fiery surgeonfish of Hawaii's crashing waves

Hawaii's bold black-and-white deep reef angelfsh — found nowhere else

Encrusting guardian of the rocky shelf

An electric blue crown on Hawaii's shallow reefs

Hawaii's only yellow-and-blue-striped endemic butterflyfish

Kala — Hawaii's horned reef giant that can live over 50 years

Naiʻa — the most recognizable dolphin in Hawaiian waters

Hawaii's most common stingray — a sandy seafloor ambush predator

Extreme rarity in Hawaii — a coastal giant that almost never comes here

The most common coral you'll meet on a Hawaiian dive

Festive colors speed through Hawaii's surge-swept shallows

Hawaii's most abundant surgeonfish — always in uniform

Heʻe mauli — Hawaii's master of disguise and daytime hunter

A jet-black branched nudibranch of Hawaii's rocky reef crevices

Hawaii's master of disguise — a venomous ambush predator hiding in plain sight

Hawaii's most dramatic eel — the fire-colored dragon of the deep reef

Understated builder on Hawaii's deeper reef margins

A robust mounding coral building Hawaii's reef foundations

The insular false killer whale — Hawaii's most at-risk cetacean

A spotted Hawaiian endemic of deep cave entrances

Hawaii's golden finger coral, shaping the deep reef

Hawaii's fiery harem wrasse — the only fairy wrasse found here

The reef's disappearing act — a flat master of color and pattern change

Hawaii's monogamous butterflyfish — bonded for life on the reef

Dominant apex predator of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

The largest moray eel in the Indo-Pacific — an apex predator of extraordinary mass

Hawaii's most iconic nudibranch — lace of gold on the reef

Kole — Hawaii's wide-eyed brown surgeonfish with a golden ring

A colorful spotted chromodorid nuanced across Hawaiian tropical reefs

Hawaii's rarest shark visitor — a deep-diving ocean traveler

Honu — sacred guardian of Hawaiian reefs and shores

ʻAlaʻihi — Hawaii's endemic nocturnal big-eyed cave dweller

Mūheʻe — Hawaii's glowing endemic squid, a science superstar

Hawaii's only endemic cleaner wrasse — the reef's doctor

ʻĀholehole — Hawaii's sacred endemic coastal fish of moonlit shores

Hawaii's endemic sand-colony eel — thousands sway together like a living garden

Hawaii's deep endemic anthias — rare, pink, and long-finned

ʻĪlio-holo-i-ka-uaua — the rarest seal in the world

Heʻe puloa — Hawaii's endemic nighttime octopus

Hawaii's most conspicuous damselfish — the reef's bold, territorial sentinel

Naiʻa — Hawaii's acrobatic daytime dreamer

ʻAlaihi — Hawaii's endemic red cave-dweller of the night reef

Honuʻea — the critically rare hawk of Hawaii's reefs

Koholā — Hawaii's winter whale and the singer of the sea

A brilliantly colored nudibranch of Hawaii's sheltered bays and mud flats

Branching architect of the Hawaiian reef

The ocean's largest living reptile — a deep-diving giant

Stalwart reef-builder of Hawaii's wave-battered crests

The ancient backbone of Hawaii's coral reef system

The rarest angelfish in the world — Hawaii's deep-water phantom

Hawaii's most common butterflyfish — a true endemic

The most dramatic silhouette on the Hawaiian reef

The solitary wanderer of Hawaiian sand flats

The ocean's greatest filter feeder — a graceful giant

Hawaii's most notorious coral invader — beautiful but destructive

Umaumalei — the masked unicornfish of Hawaii's outer reefs

The reef sculptor that creates Hawaii's white sand beaches

Hawaii's white-speckled endemic butterflyfish of mid-depth reefs

Hawaii's open-ocean whip-tailed predator — tail as long as its body

Hawaii's shore-zone eel — venturing into anchialine ponds and tide pools other eels never reach

A warty pink nudibranch specialist in sponge predation across Hawaiian reefs

A gray fissured nudibranch of Hawaii's rocky reef substrates

Hawaii's night-hunter nudibranch — rare, red, and endemic

Broad plates that build Hawaii's mid-depth reefs

Hawaii's most common angelfish — a burnt-orange endemic gem

Hawaii's wild-colored deep reef wrasse — black, white, and electric

A jewel of violet hues on Hawaii's reef slopes

Hawaii's resident manta — smaller but just as majestic

Hawaii's official state fish — name longer than its body

Hawaii's dominant reef builder in peril

Dragon as a juvenile, reef engineer as an adult — one of Hawaii's most dramatic transformations

Hīnālea lauwili — Hawaii's most abundant reef fish, full stop

The most abundant large shark in Hawaiian nearshore waters

Mano kihikihi — Hawaii's legendary schooling hammerhead

Named for Poli'ahu — as white as the snow goddess herself

Hawaii's most beautiful eel — a crustacean specialist with a pattern like fresh snow

The spotted flyer of Hawaii's reef slopes

The large, sweeping relative of Hawaii's most common coral

Hawaii's most common puffer — beautiful, toxic, and utterly unbothered

A dark, branched nudibranch of Hawaii's deeper and more sheltered reefs

The white-tailed chocolate surgeonfish of Hawaii's outer reef walls

Niuhi — Hawaii's apex predator and cultural guardian

Subtle and steadfast on Hawaiian boulder reefs

The wave-patterned prowler of Hawaii's shallow reef flats

A shape-shifter thriving across Hawaiian reef zones

Earth's largest fish — a gentle pelagic giant passing through Hawaiian waters

A spotted reef eel celebrated by NOAA as an icon of Hawaiian marine sanctuaries

Mano lalakea — most commonly seen reef shark in Hawaii

Hawaii's iconic golden surgeon of the reef

Hawaii's largest and most dramatic nudibranch — a crimson dancer of the night reef

Hawaii's hidden sand eel — a burrowing predator only its snout reveals

Hawaii's largest and most commonly encountered moray — the apex eel of the reef

Boldly banded and uniquely built — the shellfish crusher of Hawaii's reef