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National Park of American Samoa
Checklist of the Fishes
 
Chaetodon lunula, racoon butterflyfish
NPS photo by Bryan Harry.
Raccoon butterflyfish, Chaetodon lunula, one of many species in Samoa waters.
 

Click here to use the Checklist of the park's fishes.  This is the current list of park fishes, and has many illustrations.

The species lists are kept at the Pacific Islands Cooperative Ecosystems Study Unit (PI CESU), University of Hawaii.  The National Park Service is an active member of the PI CESU.

At the species lists checklists there is a link to return to the park website at the bottom left footnote. 

E-mail us with corrections or comments. 

 

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Coral Inventory
More than 200 species, many illustrated
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sea slug
Marine Invertebrates,
illustrated list
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Fish Base site
FishBase.com
Fish taxonomy worldwide
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Thespesia
Plant Inventory
Checklist of higher plants with some illustrations
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Samoan fruit bats hanging at rest  

Did You Know?
Throughout the Pacific the main reason for the rarity of the two fruit bat species, or flying foxes, is that it is widely sought as a food and considered a delicacy. Sale or trade in fruit bats is now illegal in the U.S. and its territories.

Last Updated: March 25, 2008 at 13:29 EST