Makiawa Hawaiian Sardines Appease Magnum PI's The Cat Who Cried Wolf

Summary: Makiawa Hawaiian sardines attract a feline witness to a homicide instead of a missing orange tabby on Magnum PI's The Cat Who Cried Wolf Nov. 5, 2018.

Makiawa Hawaiian sardines (Etrumeus makiawa) were identified as the western Pacific Ocean's red-eye round herring (Clupea micropus; Etrumeus micropus) until reclassification as a distinctly Hawaiian species in 2012; illustration of Clupea micropus in C.J. Temminck and H. Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, [vol. 2] Pisces (1850), Tab. CVII, figure II: Public Domain, via Biodiversity Heritage Library

Makiawa Hawaiian sardines appeal to a blood-spattered, non-freckled orange tabby instead of to a freckled lookalike on Magnum PI action drama television series episode The Cat Who Cried Wolf Nov. 5, 2018.

Director Eagle Egilsson and writer Neil Tolkin build the first season's seventh episode around Mittens, a missing orange tabby cat with freckled undersides and white paws. Thomas Magnum (Jay Hernandez), private investigator and Robin's Nest security consultant for absentee landowner and best-selling author Robin Masters, consents to the case despite cat allergies. Kumu ("foundation, source, teacher, tree") Tuileta (Amy Hill), cultural curator for the Robin's Nest property on O'ahu ("the gathering place"), describes rice and sardines delighting cats.

Magnum enjoys employer Cecilia Simpson's (Stella Edwards) chocolate chip cookies and her mother Isabelle's (Navi Rawat) coffee as he establishes overnight stakeouts outside the Simpson house.

Magnum follows an orange tabby with a blood-spattered paw and freckle-free undersides from his rice and sardine bait to a house with a fatally shot man.

Coastal waters off Hawai'i ("homeland"), Kaho'olawe ("the erosion, the subtraction"), Kaua'i ("place of abundance"), Lāna'i ("day conquest"), Māui, Moloka'i, Ni'ihau and O'ahu get makiawa Hawaiian sardines. They host makiawa Hawaiian sardine schools between 328.08- to 1,312.34-foot (100- to 400-meter) subsurface depths and 49.21- to 65.62-foot (15- to 20-meter) depths above sea bottoms. Makiawa Hawaiian sardines, identified commonly as Hawaiian red-eyed round herrings and locally as makiawa, impart redness in collagenated, mysterious, non-fatty eyelids and roundness in silver-scaled bellies.

Makiawa Hawaiian sardines journey in semi-organized, small shoals during annual spawning seasons to jettison large numbers of demersal (from Latin dēmersus, "sunk") eggs into Hawaiian waters.

Hawaiian currents and water columns only briefly kick the egg stage of makiawa Hawaiian sardines around before non-buoyant adhesiveness keeps makiawa eggs attached to bottom substrates.

Hatched 0.22- to 0.75-inch- (5.7- to 19-millimeter-) long larvae live, like their evening-spawned 0.057- to 0.060-inch (1.45- to 1.53-millimeter) diameter egg stages, on the bottom substrate. Life cycles move makiawa Hawaiian sardines from larval diets of yolk sacs, zooplankton and larval crustaceans and fishes to mature diets of zooplankton, fishes and crustaceans. Makiawa Hawaiian sardines, named scientifically Etrumeus makiawa (from Hawaiian makiawa, "sardine"), net 4.57- to 7.48-inch- (116- to 190-millimeter-) long mature bodies and prominently navigate Kāne-ohe Bay, O'ahu.

Preserved makiawa offer brown uppersides; yellow irises; black-brown-patched brown-yellow snouts; brown-yellow lower jaws and fins; black-brown-blotched silver-yellow operculums (from Latin operculum, "[gill-flap] cover"); and silver-white undersides.

Makiawa Hawaiian sardines photograph with silver-spotted black snouts, blue-purple upper-sides and lavender undersides; and purple dorsal and causal, brown-lavender pectoral and lavender-white pelvic and anal fins.

Alive, they perhaps queue up bright blue-green, scale-free heads and large-scaled uppersides; bright silver eye surrounds; white irises; bright silver, small-scaled undersides; and olive-green pectoral fins. Four, three and one first of respectively 18 to 20 pectoral, 9 to 11 anal, and 15 to 16 pectoral and 8 pelvic rays remain unbranched. Makiawa Hawaiian sardines sustain 18 principal caudal rays, 48 to 51 gill rakers, 16 branchiostegal rays, 54 to 55 vertebrae and 86 to 93 scale series.

Makiawa Hawaiian sardines perhaps more likely turn up at dusk as surface-water prey for fishes, marine mammals and seabirds than in rice-laced seafood for land mammals.

The case of missing feline Mittens leads to a more complicated case for Thomas Sullivan Magnum (Jay Hernandez) in CBS-TV's Magnum P.I. season 1 episode 7, The Cat Who Cried Wolf: Magnum P.I. @MagnumPICBS, via Facebook Nov. 5, 2018

Acknowledgment

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Makiawa Hawaiian sardines (Etrumeus makiawa) were identified as the western Pacific Ocean's red-eye round herring (Clupea micropus; Etrumeus micropus) until reclassification as a distinctly Hawaiian species in 2012; illustration of Clupea micropus in C.J. Temminck and H. Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, [vol. 2] Pisces (1850), Tab. CVII, figure II: Public Domain, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53641711

The case of missing feline Mittens leads to a more complicated case for Thomas Sullivan Magnum (Jay Hernandez) in CBS-TV's Magnum P.I. season 1 episode 7, The Cat Who Cried Wolf: Magnum P.I. @MagnumPICBS, via Facebook Nov. 5, 2018, @ https://www.facebook.com/MagnumPICBS/posts/457226704922024

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