Ecuador: Galapagos Islands

Statistics

Occurrence records 157,557
Species level 132,480
Species 2,324
Taxa 3,294
Datasets 136
Time range 1834 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 0
Not marine 387
No WoRMS match 1,238
No coordinates 0
Zero coordinates 0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 136
No accepted name available 120

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 147,961 519
eventDate 7,564 0
maximumDepthInMeters 152,603 57
minimumDepthInMeters 149,681 2
occurrenceStatus 15,956 0
scientificName 482 0
scientificNameID 8,058 18

Spatial issues

Records on land 11,506
More than 20 km from shore 0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 1,068

Top datasets

Dataset Records
Galapagos Subtidal Biodiversity
Published 2024-01-04
92,553
HMAP Dataset 14: Galapagos Marine Reserve, Ecuador II
Published 2025-03-20
14,630
HMAP Dataset 13: Galapagos Marine Reserve, Ecuador I
Published 2025-03-20
14,284
HMAP Dataset 15: Galapagos Marine Reserve, Ecuador III
Published 2025-03-20
10,566
FishNet2 Marine Data
Published 2023-12-19
5,209
CAS Ichthyology (ICH)
Published 2025-03-17
3,285
PANGAEA - Data from the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
Published 2025-03-20
2,269
Marine mammal sightings off Galápagos
Published 2021-04-24
1,896
National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections
Published
1,787
World Ocean Database 2009
Published 2020-11-17
1,216

Distribution

Disclaimer: EEZ boundaries based on Marine Regions (no endorsement).

Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa
Scientific name Records
Isostichopus fuscus (Ludwig, 1875) EN
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea
11,884
Panulirus penicillatus (Olivier, 1791)
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
10,949
Panulirus gracilis Streets, 1871
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
6,976
Mycteroperca olfax (Jenyns, 1840) EN
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2,654
Bodianus diplotaenia (Gill, 1862)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1,969
Epinephelus labriformis (Jenyns, 1840)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1,962
Stegastes beebei (Nichols, 1924)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1,949
Holacanthus passer Valenciennes, 1846
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1,854
Halichoeres dispilus (Günther, 1864)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1,808
Ophioblennius steindachneri Jordan & Evermann, 1898
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1,708

Newest species

Scientific name Records Since
Callistephanus pacificus Nutting, 1912
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia
2 2023
Bostrychia radicans (Montagne) Montagne, 1842
Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae
1 2022
Mycale (Carmia) cecilia de Laubenfels, 1936
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
18 2022
Domecia hispida Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842
Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca
1 2022
Naso brevirostris (Cuvier, 1829)
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
1 2022
Xanthichthys caeruleolineatus Randall, Matsuura & Zama, 1978
Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei
2 2022
Ophioderma teres (Lyman, 1860)
Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea
1 2022
Herdmania pallida (Heller, 1878)
Phylum Chordata > Class Ascidiacea
1 2022
Amathia verticillata (delle Chiaje, 1822)
Phylum Bryozoa > Class Gymnolaemata
2 2022
Tedania (Tedania) tropicalis Aguilar-Camacho, Carballo & Cruz-Barraza, 2018
Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae
3 2022

Data providers

Name Records
Charles Darwin Foundation 93,415
Caribbean OBIS 92,553
Caribbean OBIS Node 92,553
Fundación Charles Darwin 40,119
University of Hull, Oceans Past Initiative 39,480
The University of Dublin, Trinity College 39,480
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute 5,209
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee 3,826
California Academy of Sciences 3,568
California Academy of Sciences 3,304