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Related FAQs: The Fishes of the Cook Islands, Coverage of families in the Cooks: Surgeons, Doctorfishes, Tangs, Triggerfishes, Hawkfishes, Wrasses Related Articles: Introduction to Fishwatcher's Guide Series Pieces/Sections, /Fishwatching: Adventure Travel Series Pet-Fishing in the Cook Islands Long Version, Pt. III To: Pet-Fishing in the Cooks, Short Version, Longer Version: Part I, Part II, Part IV | |
Underwater: Invertebrates Plenty of species, diversity, abundance of all major marine invertebrate phyla. |  
 
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Soft and Hard Corals Rubble washed up on beach are stony skeletons, a Lobophyton, massive colony of Goniopora in six feet of water, and an equally shallow mass of Montipora. |  
 
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More invertebrates Molluscs (shown a Tridacna clam, Spanish Dancer nudibranch), and one of many species of Sea Cucumber. | 
 
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Cooks Fish Families, Species of use to aquarists
N= 547 total vN=27 species/Cooks vGood quality, numbers vNone collected for the trade from here vAcanthurus achilles, A. dussumieri | 
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| Shown: A juvenile and adult-colored Chevron Tang, Ctenochaetus hawaiiensis; a Striated Tang, C. striatus, and a Kole or Yellow-Eyed Tang, C. strigosus |  
 
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N. brevirostris, N. hexacanthus, N. vlamingii, N. lituratus, N.unicornis. 
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Zebrasoma in the Cooks vZebrasoma scopas, Z. veliferum. And have Z. rostratum according to fishbase.org, but I’ve never seen it there. |  
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On to Part IV |
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