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BIRDS
| Pacific Pigeons | lupe |
| Purple-capped Fruit-Doves | manutagi |
| Many-colored Fruit-Doves | manuma |
| Samoan Starling | fuia |
| Wattled Honeyeaters | iao |
| Polynesian Starlings | miti vao |
| eagle | aeto |
| Bluecrowned Lory | segavao (sega'ula) |
| cardinal honeyeater | segasegamau'u |
| golden plover | tuli |
| white-tailed tropicbird | tava'esina |
| purple swamphen | manu ali'i |
| banded rail | ve'a |
| Samoan Starling | fuia |
| wattled honeyeater (foulehaio carunculata) | iao |
| barn owl | lulu |
| pacific reef-heron | matu'u |
| white-tailed tropicbird | tava'esina (tava'e) |
| gray duck | toloa |
| red-footed booby | fua'o |
| fruit bat | pe'a fanua |
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"Large flying foxes, also know as fruit bats, are one of the more unusual animals in American Samoa, especially for visitors from areas where bats are small and rarely seen. Three species inhabit our islands – two large fruit bats (Pteropus samoensis, P. tonganus) and a small insect-eating bat (Emballonura semicaudata). These three are the only native mammals in the Samoan islands." (Source: National Park of American Samoa)
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ANIMALS
| dog | maile |
| pig | pua'a |
| cat | pusi |
| horse | solofanua |
| cow | povi |
| rat | isumu |
| elephant | elefane |
| monkey | manuki |
PLANTS
| pandanus | laufala |
| falcataria moluccana | tamaligi palagi |
| ornamental hibiscus | 'aute |
| ginger | teuila |
| Indian mulberry | nonu |
| coconut | niu |
| coral tree | gatae |
| banyan | a'oa |
INSECTS
| mosquito | namu |
| walking stick | se |
| ant | loi |
| worm | anufe |
| cockroches | mogamoga |
| snake | gata |
| skinks | pili |
| katydids | alisi |
| centipede (scolopendra subspinipes) | atualoa |
| dragonflies | seemu |
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FISH
| bigeye scad | atule |
| wahoo (acanthocybium solandri) | paala |
| albacore (thunnus alaluga) | apakoa |
| yellowfin (thunnus albacares) | asiasi |
| mahimahi (coryphaena hippurus) | masimasi |
| blue-lined surgeonfish (acanthurus lineatus) | alogo |
| mountain bass | salelea |
| spinner dolphin (stenella longirostris) | mumua |
| sea turtle | i'a sa |
| octopus | fe'e |
| giant clam | faisua |
| hermit crab | uga |
| coconut crab (birgus latro) | u'u |
| freshwater shrimp | ula vai |
| lobster | ula |
| crab | pa'a |
| shore crab (grapsus sp.) | ama'ama |
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