Everyone thought the humuhumunukunukuapuaa was Hawaii's state fish. As it turns out, the brightly colored fish with the excessively long name has been
dethroned.The stubby-nosed, brightly striped and slightly aggressive little fish whose name few tourists even try to utter (it's pronounced HOO-moo-HOO-moo-NOO-koo-NOO-koo-AH-poo-AH-ah) is commonly believed to be the state's favorite. The fish figures into tourist trinkets, broadcast commercials and a much-beloved song about a little grass shack.
"It won't be long 'till my ship will be sailing back to Kona, a grand ole place, I always long to see, I'm just a little Hawai'ian and a homesick island boy, I want to go back to my fish and poi, I want to go back to my little grass shack in Kealakekua, Hawai'i, where the humuhumunukunukuapuaa go swimming by."
A tourist favorite, for sure, and probably the first song most haole wahines learn to do the hula.
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