FreshwaterBrackishSaltwater
Hawaiian flagtail
Kuhlia sandvicensis
Kuhliidae
Facts
Characteristics
- Length
- Up to 25 cm
- Body shape
- Streamlined
Care
- Group
- Missing
- Smallest aquarium
- 375 liters
- Diet
- Missing
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Behavior
Water values
Smallest tank
Range
Native
Lives wild in Cook Islands, Fiji, France, French Polynesia, Japan, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Pitcairn Islands, and 1 more country.
More about the species
Description
Length at maturity about 18 cm. Taken with hook and line using bread or shrimp for bait. A native Hawaiian fish found in both marine and freshwater habitats. Feeds on fishes, invertebrates, and insects. Sr/Ca profiles from otoliths of juvenile and adult fish from fresh and salt water indicated that use of stream habitats by this species is facultative.
Other names
Other scientific names
- Dules sandvicensis
- Kuhlia malo
- Kuhlia marginata
- Moronopsis argenteus sandvicensis
- Moronopsis sandvicensis
In other languages
- Hawaii-flaghale
- Aholehole
Articles
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