Alien or Native?

ALIEN

• Hypnea musciformis (hip-nea' muski-formis)
• Alien seaweed, found along Maui's south shores.

NATIVE

• Podophthalmus vigil (podop-tha'mus vig'il)
• Native swimming crab, called "mo'ala" by Hawaiians.

ALIENS

• Sigmadocia caraeula (sigma-doc'-ia ca-rule'-ea)
• Alien sponge from the Caribbean.

NATIVE

• Dictyosphaeria cavernosa (dic-tio'-sferia caver-no'sa)
• Native seaweed, "green bubble alga", covered and smothered corals in Kane'ohe Bay.

ALIEN

• Phyllorhiza punctata (feye-low-riza pung-tata)
• Alien jellyfish, probably from the Western Pacific.

NATIVE

• Tonna perdix (toh-na per-dix)
• Native snail, also called puleho, used in Hawaiian shell lei.