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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. 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

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

Other arthropods

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)

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