List of animals in the Galápagos Islands

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This is a list of animals that live in the Galápagos Islands.

Mammals[]

Male Galápagos fur seal

Bottlenose dolphins off Galápagos Islands

Rodents[]

• Galápagos rice rat, (Aegialomys galapagoensis)

Pinnipeds[]

• Galápagos fur seal, (Arctocephalus galapagoensis)
• Galápagos sea lion, (Zalophus wollebaeki)

Bats[]

• Hoary bat, (Lasiurus cinereus)

Cetaceans[]

• Blainville's beaked whale, (Mesoplodon densirostris)
• Common bottlenose dolphin, (Tursiops truncatus)
• Cuvier's beaked whale, (Ziphius cavirostris)

Reptiles[]

• Galápagos tortoise
• Green sea turtle
• Marine iguana
• Galápagos land iguana
• Galápagos pink land iguana
• Santa Fe land iguana
• Lava lizard
• Galapagos racer
• Yellow-bellied sea snake

Birds[]

• American flamingo
• American yellow warbler
• Blue-footed booby
• Brown noddy
• Brown pelican
• Cattle egret
• Darwin's finches
• Flightless cormorant
• Galápagos dove
• Galápagos flycatcher
• Galapagos shearwater
• Galapagos martin
• 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
• Floreana mockingbird
• San Cristobal mockingbird
• Galapagos rail

Fish[]

• Galápagos damsel
• Scalloped hammerhead shark
• Whitetip reef shark
• Red-lipped or Galápagos batfish
• Spotted eagle ray
• Golden cownose ray
• Razor surgeon fish
• King angelfish
• Whale shark
• Galapagos shark

Insects[]

Beetles — Coleoptera[]

There are around 200 beetle species including:

• Calosoma
• Cicindela

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 ()
• 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 ()
• Grasshoppers, locusts, katydids and crickets—Orthoptera

Other arthropods[]

• Galápagos scorpion ()
• Common yellow scorpion ()
• Several species of centipedes, including ()
• Sally Lightfoot crab (Grapsus grapsus)

Over fifty species of spiders, including the giant crab spider (Heteropoda venatoria), the smaller Selenops, the endemic , 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.