Marine Life - Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park (U.S. National Park Service) The rocky Puna coastline (NPS Photo/A. LaValle) Called honuʻea or ʻea by Native Hawaiians, the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata), is an endangered sea turtle that lives in the waters of the islands. It can be most easily differentiated from the more common green sea turtle by its sharper, more pointed beak. The plates on hawksbill shells also overlap, like shingles. Hawksbills are generally about half the size of the more common green sea turtles, averaging.
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