Hanauma Bay’s Underwater World – Life from the Bay
Marine life videos sharing facts about sea creatures living in Hanauma Bay. Playlist will show several marine life video compilations.
Videos
Vol. 1
Featured Creatures – Raccoon Butterflyfish, Hawaiian Cleaner Wrasse, Yellowfin Goatfish, Convict Tang, Achilles Tang, Bluefin Trevally
Fun Fact: Raccoon Butterflyfish pair for life.
Vol. 2
Featured Creatures – Yellowfin Goatfish, Juvenile Rockmover Wrasse, Day Octopus, Pacific Threadfin, Male Christmas Wrasse, Sharpnose Mullet
Fun Fact: Rockmover Wrasses look very different in their adulthood.
Vol. 3
Featured Creatures – Longspine Porcupinefish, Hawaiian Flagtails, Panther Flounder, Reef Triggerfish, White Mouth Moray and Bluefin Trevally, Green Sea Turtle
Fun Fact: Reef Triggerfish become highly aggressive when protecting their eggs.
Vol. 4
Featured Creatures – Old Woman Wrasse, Devil Scorpionfish, Blue Goatfish and Bluefin Trevally, Peppered Moray, Bigfin Reef Squid, Bigeye Trevally
Fun Fact: Devil Scorpionfish are ambush predators relying on camouflage and patience to catch their prey.
Vol. 5
Featured Creatures – Flying Gurnard, Lagoon Triggerfish, Green Sea Turtle, Hawaiian Flagtail, Striped Mullet, Bluefin Trevally and Yellowfin Surgeonfish
Fun Fact: Triggerfish have their eyes set back so that they can feed on urchins without losing them.
Vol. 6
Featured Creatures – Day Octopus, Thornback Cowfish, Moorish Idol, Female Spectacled Parrotfish, Milkfish, Bigeye Scad
Fun Fact: Day Octopuses only live for about one year.
Vol. 7
Featured Creatures – Hawaiian Dascyllus, Barred Jacks, Lavender Tang, Whitespotted Surgeonfish, Bluestripe Snapper, Bigeye Trevally, Black Durgon
Fun Fact: Fish feed in congregations for protection from predators.
Vol. 8
Featured Creatures – Green Sea Turtle, Yellowmargined Moray, Bluestripe Snapper, Black Triggerfish, Spotted Eagle Ray
Fun Fact: Green Sea Turtles are named after the color of their fat inside, rather than the color of their outsides.
Vol. 9
Featured Creatures – Spiny Porcupinefish, Stareye Parrotfish, Yellow Tang, Green Sea Turtle, Big Eye Trevally, Lagoon Triggerfish, Convict Tang
Fun Fact: Stareye Parrotfish will fight to establish dominance with their teeth.
Vol. 10
Featured Creatures – Juvenile Blackspot Sergeant, Lagoon Triggerfish, Spiny Porcupinefish, Teardrop Butterflyfish, Peacock Grouper, Bluefin Trevally
Fun Fact: Peacock Groupers are an invasive species in Hawai’i, meaning they push out other native species from their natural habitat.
Vol. 11
Featured Creatures – Striped Mullet, Seurat’s Hermit Crab, Whitemouth Moray, Day Octopus, Male Palenose Parrotfish, Giant Trevally and Bluefin Trevally, Peppered Moray, Great Barracuda
Fun Fact: Striped Mullet will leap from the water to shake off parasites and to avoid predation.
Vol. 12
Featured Creatures – Imperial Nudibranch, Convict Tang, Threadfin Butterflyfish, Longspine Porcupinefish, Male Pearl Wrasse, Keeltail Needlefish, Striped Mullet, Green Sea Turtle
Fun Fact: Nudibranch means “Naked Gills” and refers to the animals external gills on their backs.
Vol. 13
Featured Creatures – Medusa Spaghetti Worm, Saddle Wrasse, Initial Redlip Parrotfish, Day Octopus, Yellowmargin Moray, Blacktail Old Woman Wrasse, Rockmover Wrasse
Fun Fact: The white tentacles of a Medusa Spaghetti worm pull food to the mouth of the animal hidden deep inside its burrow.
Vol. 14
Featured Creatures – Commerson’s Frogfish, Longtail Dragonet, Flying Gurnard and Bluefin Trevally, Blackspot Sergeant, Crocodile Needlefish, Spotted Knifejaw, Ornate Butterflyfish, Hawaiian Sergeant, Bigeye Trevally
Fun Fact: Frogfish sway in the water to mimic the movements of leaves as they wait to ambush prey.
Vol. 16
Featured Creatures – Freckled Snake Eel, Green Sea Turtle, Bicolor Anthias, Mackerel Scad, Indo-Pacific Sergeant Major, Hawaiian Spinner Dolphin
Fun Fact: Spinner Dolphins are nocturnal, swimming slowly in their pods during the day to rest.
Vol. 17
Featured Creatures – Hawaiian Zebra Blenny, Yellowfin Goatfish, Green Sea Turtle, Snowflake Moray, Hawaiian Bigeye and Spotfin Squirrelfish
Fun Fact: Snowflake Morays are sequential hermaphrodites, starting life as females and eventually transitioning to males.
2020 Vol. 1
Featured Creatures – Goldspot Herring, Stripe Belly Puffer, Day Octopus, Bigeye Trevally, Green Sea Turtle, Spotted Eagle Ray, Coastal Manta Ray
Fun Fact: Puffer fish can expand their bodies by gulping water.
Hanauma: Live From the Reef
Featured Creatures – Hawaiian Cleaner Wrasse, Yellowfin Goatfish, Thin-Shelled Rock Crab, Evermannʻs Coral, Orangespine Unicornfish, Great Barracuda, Day Octopus, Redlip Parrotfish, Blackspot Sergeant, Gray Chub, Yellowfin Surgeonfish, Hawaiian Tenpounder, Black Triggerfish, Whitetip Reef Shark and Humpback Whale
Hanauma: Live From the Reef II
Featured Creatures – Slender Lizardfish (ʻulae), Marbled Shrimp, Stout Moray Eel (puhi), Lagoon Triggerfish (humuhumunukunukuapuaʻa), Spanish Dancer Nudibranch, Hawaiian Anchovy (nehu), Whitetip Reef Shark (manō lālākea), Green Sea Turtle (honu), and Hawaiian Spinner Dolphin (naiʻa)
Hanauma: Live From the Reef III
Featured Creatures – Yellowmargin Moray Eel (puhi paka), Upside-Down Jellyfish, juvenile Lowfin Chub (nenue), Flying/Helmet Gurnard (loloaʻu), Day Octopus (heʻe mauli), Yellow Tang (lauʻipala), Snowflake Moray Eel (puhi kāpā), Clumpy Nudibranch, Whitespotted Surgeonfish (ʻapi), Hawksbill Sea Turtle (honuʻea) & Bigeye Trevally (pake ulua)
Hanauma: Live From the Reef IV
Featured Creatures – Zebra Blenny (pāoʻo), Spiny Porcupinefish (kōkala), Green Sea Turtle (honu), Blue Dragon Nudibranch, Whitetip Reef Shark (manō lālākea), juvenile Orangespine Unicornfish (umaumalei), Snowflake Moray Eel (puhi kāpā), Hawaiian Monk Seal (ʻilioholoikauaua) & Hawaiian Spinner Dolphin (naiʻa) pod
Hanauma: Live From the Reef V
Featured Creatures – juvenile Scalloped Hammerhead Shark (manō kihikihi), Yellowstripe Goatfish (wekeʻa), Devil Scorpionfish (nohu ʻomakaha), Spanish Dancer Egg Case, Zebra Moray Eel (puhi), Green Sea Turtle (honu), Lagoon Triggerfish (humuhumunukunukuapuaʻa), Snowflake Moray Eel (puhi kāpā), juvenile Yellowtail Coris (hinālea ʻakilolo) & Hawaiian Monk Seal (ʻilioholoikauaua)
Hanauma: Live From the Reef VI
Featured Creatures – Hawaiian Elegant Hermit Crab, Marbled Shrimp, Undulated Moray Eel (puhi laumilo), juvenile Bridled Triggerfish (humuhumu mimi), Sharpnose Mullet (uouoa), Barred Jack (ulua), Day Octopus (heʻe mauli), Convict Tang (manini), Christmas Tree Worm (kio), initial phase Bullethead Parrotfish (uhu), Limu kohu, Bluestripe Snapper (taʻape), Hawaiian Sergeant (mamo) school, Longspine Porcupinefish (kōkala), Bigeye Trevally (pake ulua), Green Sea Turtle (honu), & Spotted Eagle Ray (hīhīmanu)
Hanauma: Live From the Reef VII
Featured Creatures – 1) SCRAWLED FILEFISH (loulu) – have the ability to darken their body rapidly to a mottled camouflage pattern. 2) STRIPED MULLET (ʻamaʻama) – Silvery gray with faint stripes along the scale rows, blunt snouts & tail fins edged in black. 3) subadult ROCKMOVER WRASSE – exhibit twisting and swaying motions that help resemble drifting seaweed. 4) THREADFIN BUTTERFLYFISH (kīkākapu) – feed primarily on sessile (attached) and sand-dwelling invertebrates. 5) YELLOWSTRIPE/SQUARESPOT GOATFISH (wekeʻā) – during the day, they often aggregate at predictable spots on the reef. 6) supermale REDLIP/EMBER PARROTFISH (uhuʻeleʻele) – often followed by Saddle or Christmas Wrasse nabbing small creatures. 7) PEPPERED MORAY EEL (puhi kāpaʻa) – usually inhabits waters less than 30 feet deep in a variety of habitats. (*Shot by Kaeley Pilichowski) 8) LINED BUTTERFLYFISH (kīkākapu) – largest of their family and may reach their greatest size in Hawaiʻi 9) HAWAIIAN TENPOUNDER/LADYFISH (ʻawaʻaua) – form slowly moving schools by day.
Hanauma: Live From the Reef VIII
Featured Creatures – 1) Seuratʻs Hermit Crab: lives in rocky pools of the “splash zone” just above sea level among the periwinkles and nerite snails 2) Ciliated Mantis Shrimp: in color they match their surroundings with greens, tans and browns, sometimes mottled or striped 3) Smooth Seahorse: usually coated with filamentous algae and silt and thus easy to overlook – *VC (Kaeley Pilichowski) 4) Pacific Trumpetfish (nūnū): sometimes hunt by swimming closely alongside a school of non-predator species (i.e. Hawaiian Flagtails (aholehole)) 5) Bigfin Squid (mūheʻe): by rippling its fins, the squid can swim forward or backward; for speed, it jets backwards 6) Blackspot Sergeant (kūpīpī): the species name (sordidus) means “dirty,” probably referring to its coloration 7) (female) Psychedelic Wrasse: one of Hawaiiʻs most endemic wrasses (i.e. not found anywhere else in the world) 8) Spanish Dancer Nudibranch: can swim by flexing the body and undulating the outspread mantle (hence their common name) 9) Green Sea Turtle (honu): generally graze on algae and sea grasses along the shore in the early morning and late afternoon 10) Hawaiian Monk Seal (ʻilioholoikauaua): are solitary animals and do NOT congregate on beaches or in the water as many seals do
Hanauma: Live From the Reef IX
Featured Creatures – 1) Hawaiian Green Lionfish (nohu pinao) – At night, hunts in the open usually with its enlarged pectoral fins spread wide, perhaps to help corner their prey 2) Banded Urchin (wana) – Spines of adults are usually dull black but may be banded or even grayish white 3) Snowflake Moray Eel (puhi kāpā) – Have pebble-like teeth; blunt dentition used to crush shells of their prey (i.e. crabs) 4) juvenile Ornate Butterflyfish (kīkākapu) – Cream with black colors on the face and graceful orange lines running diagonally along the body 5) Feather Duster Worm – Most conspicuous part of this worm is its large fan, or crown; the body, enclosed in a leathery tube 6) juvenile Yellowtail Coris (hīnālea ʻakilolo) – Bright red with a series of white saddles edged in black (closest to looking like a Clownfish, aka Nemo) 7) Upside-Down Jellyfish – Bushy, many-branched arms often obscure the bell, which pulses gently and continually to convey food upward 8) Imperial Nudibranch – Commonly occur in pairs, one trailing behind the other, and are active during the day 9) Green Sea Turtle (honu) – Generally graze on algae along the shore early morning and late afternoon
Hanauma: Live From the Reef X
Featured Creatures -1) Whitemouth Moray Eel (puhi ʻōniʻo) 2) Imperial Nudibranch 3) Brown Surgeonfish/Lavender Tang (māʻiʻiʻi) 4) Whitetip Reef Shark (manō lālakeā) 5) Stout Moray Eel (puhi) 6) Pustulose Phyllidia 7) Giant Porcupinefish (kōkala) 8) Green Sea Turtle (honu) 9) Spotted Eagle Ray (hīhīmanu)
Hanauma: Live From the Reef XI
Featured Creatures -1) Day Octopus (heʻe mauli), 2) Spotted Boxfish (moa), 3) Gold Lace Nudibranch, 4) Convict Tang (manin), 5) Whitemouth Moray Eel (puhi ʻōniʻo), 6) Hawaiian Swimming Crab, 7) Smooth Seahorse, 8) Saddle Wrasse, 9) Bigfin Reef Squid (mūheʻe), 10) Crocodile Needlefish (ʻaha), 11) Black Triggerfish (humuhumu ʻeleʻele) and 12) Blacktip Reef Shark (manō pāʻele)
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