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Updated 8/18/2023
Family
Labridae
HAWAII - ENDEMIC
Stethojulis balteata 
Juvenile, Three Tables, Oahu, 10 feet
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Female, Electric Beach, Oahu, 20 feet
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Juvenile, Three Tables, Oahu, 10 feet |
Male, Electric Beach, Oahu, 20 feet |
Male, Firehouse, Oahu, 10 feet |
Female, Sea Tiger Wreck, Oahu, 95 feet
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Female, YO-257 Wreck, Oahu, 75 feet |
Male, Red Hill, Hawaii, 50 feet
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Male, Sea Tiger wreck, Oahu, 95 feet |
Male, Puako, Hawaii, 25 feet |
Male, Kewalo, Oahu, 50 feet |
Juvenile
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Juveniles, Kaiona, Oahu, 5 feet |
Juvenile, Kaiona, Oahu, 5 feet
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Male, Kahe Point, Oahu, 12 feet |
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BELTED WRASSE
'ōmaka
| Common on shallow reefs where it
may aggregate with other small wrasses and parrotfishes.
Juveniles brown or green with irregular white markings and tiny white
dots overall. An orange spot exists above the pectoral fin base in
all stages. Feeds upon small invertebrates. Attains 6 inches.
Endemic to Hawai'i. Females were formerly misidentified as Stethojulis
axillaris, males as Stethojulis albotaeniatus, both valid
species absent in Hawai'i. |
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