Meet the fishes.

The reef triggerfish — Hawaiʻi's official state fish, with a name that means "fish that sews with a needle and grunts like a pig."

The vivid lemon-yellow surgeonfish that flashes through every Hawaiian reef — and one of the most recognizable fish in the world.

The striped "convict" surgeonfish that schools across Hawaiian reefs — one of the most common fish you'll spot snorkeling.

Velvet-black surgeonfish with a brilliant orange teardrop near the tail. Iconic Hawaiian reef fish, named for the famously vulnerable spot.

Iconic black, white and yellow reef fish with a long sweeping dorsal filament — solitary, mysterious, famously hard to keep in captivity.

Golden butterflyfish with a black bandit's mask. Often paired for life and one of the most common nighttime feeders on the reef.

A bright yellow butterflyfish with an extraordinarily long, tube-like snout — a precision tool for tweezing prey from the tightest reef cracks.

Beak-mouthed reef grazers that crunch live coral all day — and produce most of the white sand on Hawaiian beaches as digestive waste.

Endemic to Hawaiʻi and the most abundant reef fish in the islands. Constantly busy, constantly color-changing.

Small, fiercely territorial damselfish endemic to Hawaiʻi — black with a bright white side spot, always sheltering inside a single coral head.

A dark, white-spotted moray that opens its mouth to breathe — not to threaten — and is one of the most common eels on Hawaiian reefs.

A slow-swimming, big-eyed pufferfish that can inflate into a spiky balloon and carries one of nature's deadliest toxins.

A slender, docile reef shark that rests in caves by day and is one of the few sharks that can pump water over its gills while lying still.

A graceful ray with a constellation of white spots across its dark back, soaring through the water like an underwater bird of prey.

A tiny armored fish where the male carries the babies — one of nature's most devoted fathers.

A superbly camouflaged ambush predator with venomous dorsal spines — nearly invisible on the reef until it strikes.

A lumpy, bulbous fish that walks on modified fins and lures prey with a built-in fishing rod tipped with a wriggling bait.

A long, slender ambush hunter that drifts vertically among coral branches, mimicking a stick until a small fish swims within range.

A sandy-bottom schooling fish with chin barbels it uses to probe the sand for hidden prey — and a species with a haunted reputation.

A blue-spotted ambush predator deliberately introduced to Hawaiʻi in the 1950s — now one of the reef's most controversial residents.