List of species of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

This is a list of the species that inhabit the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Except for researchers and volunteers living on Midway Atoll, Kure Atoll, and Tern Island, the leeward islands are uninhabited by people but home to at least 7000 species ranging from marine mammals, fish, sea turtles, birds and invertebrates. Many of these species are rare or endangered and at least 25% are endemic to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. This list identifies which islands the species lives on, and whether the species is endemic to the NWHI.

Animals

sea animals Nīhoa Necker French Frigate Shoals Gardner Pinnacles Laysan Lisianski Pearl and Hermes Midway Kure Endemic? Laysan albatross Nīhoa finch Endemic Blue noddy Nīhoa millerbird Endemic Red-footed booby Laysan finch Endemic Brown noddy Laysan duck Endemic Bristle-thighed curlew Pacific golden plover Grey-backed tern Ruddy turnstone Black-footed albatross Great frigatebird White tern Short-tailed albatross Black noddy Wedge-tailed shearwater Brown booby Christmas shearwater Masked booby Sooty tern Bonin petrel

Plants Nīhoa Necker French Frigate Shoals Gardner Pinnacles Laysan Lisianski Pearl and Hermes Midway Kure Endemic? Amaranthus brownii Endemic Boerhavia repens Chenopodium oahuense Cyperus pennatiformis Endemic Cyperus polystachyos Eragrostis paupera Eragrostis variabilis Fimbristylis cymosa Ipomoea indica Ipomoea pes-caprae Portulaca lutea Pritchardia remota Endemic Pseudognaphalium sandwicensium Schiedea verticillata Endemic Sesbania tomentosa Sesuvium portulacastrum Sicyos pachycarpus Solanum nelsonii Tribulus cistoides

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