Hawaiian Fishes 193 



Of about thirty known species, one has been introduced into the 

 Hawaiian Islands. 



Large Mouth Black Bass or Straw Bass 



85-1 Micropterus salmoides (Lacepede) 

 During the summer of 1897 the people of Hilo arranged for a 

 shipment of fish from the California Fish and Game Commission. In 

 October, ninety fish of an unidentified species of bass were shipped from 

 San Francisco on a sailing packet. Of the fifty-five fishes which arrived 

 at Hilo, thirty-four died because they were allowed to stand on deck for 

 several days. The remaining twenty-one fishes were put into the Wailuke 

 River near Rainbow Falls. The fishes were never seen again. They were 

 either swept out to sea by a freshet or did not become established. 



In 1908 Mr. W. A. Templeton while visiting in California brought 

 some large mouth black bass from California to Hawaii to put them into 

 the Wahiawa Reservoir on Oahu. They are now fairly well established 

 in this stream. 



THE MOUNTAIN BASS OR SESELE FAMILY 



86 Family Dtdeidae 



The fishes of this family are dull, somber, or silvery in color. They 

 are nearly all shoreline fishes and seem to prefer to live in the fresh 

 and brackish water about the mouths of rivers and even enter fresh water. 



These fishes are especially abundant in the waters of the Southern 

 seas from the eastern coast of Africa through the Indian Ocean and the 

 Islands of the East Indies, along the northern coast of Australia, and 

 through the many island groups of Polynesia. 



Of nine species inhabiting the Pacific Ocean, five are known from the 

 HawaiiarTlslands. 



Salele 



86-1 Dules rupestris (Lacepede) 



This fish, called the Salele by the Samoans, is silvery bronze in color 

 and is mottled with olive green. It reaches a length of about ten inches. 



A swift swimming fish of rock pools and river mouths it is distributed 

 from the eastern coast of Africa eastward to Tahiti and the Tuamotus 

 and northward to the Hawaiian Islands. 



