Authors
Gustavo Jiménez-Uzcátegui Wildlife Veterinarian & Curator, CDF Vertebrate Collections, Charles Darwin Foundation, Galapagos, Ecuador.
Howard L. Snell Professor and Curator, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles, The Museum of Southwestern Biology at the University of New Mexico, USA.
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Mammals
Mammals are capable of regulating their body temperature and have a pulmonary respiratory system. The females give milk to their young from breast glands (called mammae in Latin).
Embryo development of mammals usually occurs inside the body of the mother.
Of the 57 species recorded in Galapagos, 16 are native and endemic, eight species are extinct. Five became extinct before humans arrived in the archipelago, and were only ever known as fossils.
Authors: Gustavo Jiménez-Uzcátegui, Howard L. Snell.
Other Contributors: Paola Buitrón, Donna Harris, Brian Milstead, Elizabeth Pillaert, Sandie Salazar, Fritz Trillmich, David A. Wiedenfeld, Javier Zabala.
Names of taxa included: 58 total (54 accepted, 4 unidentified taxon).
Origin of the taxa included: 5 accidental, 3 cultivated, 6 escaped, 1 intercepted, 16 endemic, 1 indigenous, 13 migrant, 13 vagrant.
Mammalia Species Checklist
Domain Eukaryota
Kingdom Animalia
Division Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Artiodactyla
Order Carnivora
Order Cetacea
Order Cetartiodactyla
Order Chiroptera
Order Lagomorpha
Order Perissodactyla
Order Pinnipedia
Order Primates
Order Rodentia
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