List of animals in the Galápagos Islands
This is a list of animals that live in the Galápagos Islands.
Mammals
Male Galápagos fur seal
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Bottlenose dolphins off Galápagos Islands
Reptiles
Birds
- American flamingo
- American yellow warbler
- Blue-footed booby
- Brown noddy
- Brown pelican
- Cattle egret
- Darwin's finches
- Flightless cormorant
- Galápagos dove
- Galápagos flycatcher
- Galápagos hawk
- Galápagos penguin
- Great blue heron
- Great egret
- Great frigatebird
- Lava gull
- Lava heron
- Magnificent frigatebird
- Nazca booby
- Osprey
- Peregrine falcon
- Red-billed tropicbird
- Red-footed booby
- Striated heron
- Swallow-tailed gull
- Waved albatross
- Yellow-crowned night heron
- Galapagos mockingbird
- Hood mockingbird
- Galapagos rail
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:
- Carpenter ant (Camponotus sp.)
- The introduced little fire ant (Wasmannia)
- Carpenter bee (Xylocopa darwini)
Butterflies and moths — Lepidoptera
Eight species of butterfly and many species of moth are known from the Galápagos.
- Galápagos sulphur butterfly (Phoebis sennae marcellina)
- Galápagos silver fritillary (Agraulis vanillae galapagensis)
- Painted ladies (two species, Vanessa carye and V. virginiensis)
- Monarch butterfly
- Queen butterfly (Danaus gilippus)
- Galápagos blue butterfly (Leptodes parrhasioides)
- Large-tailed skipper (Urbanus dorantes)
- Green hawkmoth (Eumorpha labruscae)
- Hawkmoth (Hyles lineata florilega)
- Rustic sphinx (Manduca rustica calapagensis)
- Footmen moths (Utetheisa spp.)
- Noctuid moth (Ascalapha odorata)
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)
Over fifty species of spiders, including the giant crab spider (Heteropoda venatoria), the smaller Selenops, the endemic Lathrodectes apicalis, Argiope argentata and Neoscona oaxacensis (syn. N. cooksoni)
References and sources
- "Galapagos Species Checklist". Retrieved 17 August 2014.
- "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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