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List of animals in the Galápagos Islands

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This is a list of animals that live in the Galápagos Islands. The fauna of the Galápagos Islands include a total of 9,000 confirmed species. Of them, none have been introduced by humans, and seventeen are endemic.[citation needed] Due to amphibians intolerance of saltwater, no amphibians naturally occur on the Galapagos Islands.

Gastropods

Mammals

Male Galápagos fur seal
Bottlenose dolphins off Galápagos Islands

Rodents

Pinnipeds

Bats

  • Hoary bat, (Lasiurus cinereus)
  • Southern red bat, (Lasiurus blossevillii)
  • Galapagos red bat, (Lasiurus blossevillii brachyotis)
  • Galapagos hoary bat, (Aeorestes villosissimus)

Cetaceans

Reptiles

Birds

For full list of birds, see List of birds of the Galápagos Islands.

Fish

Insects

Beetles — Coleoptera

There are around 200 beetle species including:

Ants, bees and wasps — Hymenoptera

There are about twenty native ant species, a few wasps and only one bee in the Galápagos, including:

Butterflies and moths — Lepidoptera

Eight species of butterfly and many species of moth are known from the Galápagos.

Grass insects

  • Praying mantis (Galapagia solitaria)
  • Grasshoppers, locusts, katydids and crickets—Orthoptera

Other arthropods

  • Galápagos scorpion (Centruroides exsul)
  • Common yellow scorpion (Hadruroides lunatus)
  • Several species of centipedes, including (Scolopendra galapagensis)
  • Sally Lightfoot crab (Grapsus grapsus)
  • Galapa baetri
  • Galapa bella
  • Galapa floreana

Over fifty species of spiders, including the giant crab spider (Heteropoda venatoria), the smaller Selenops and Galapa, the endemic Lathrodectes apicalis, Argiope argentata and Neoscona oaxacensis (syn. N. cooksoni)

References and sources

  • "Galapagos Species Checklist". Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  • "About Galapagos Animals". Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  • "Lecture, John Merck, The terrestrial community". Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  • "TerraQuest - Virtual Galápagos: Wildlife - Island Life - Insects". Retrieved 14 January 2015.
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