Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Conolophus pallidus Heller, 1903

Iguana de Santa Fe, Santa Fe Land Iguana

Photo: Gustavo Jiménez-Uzcátegui, CDF.
Photo: Gustavo Jiménez-Uzcátegui, CDF.

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Chordata

Class
Reptilia

Order
Squamata

Family
Iguanidae

Genus
Conolophus

Species
pallidus

Taxon category: Accepted

Taxon origin: Endemic

Status

Vulnerable

Distribution

Distribution: Endemic to Santa Fe Island in Galápagos, Ecuador. Santa Fe is a small and relatively flat island with an area of 24 km2 and a maximum elevation of 250 m above sea level.

References

  • Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G. Milstead, B., Márquez, C., Zabala, J., Buitrón, P., Llerena, A., et al. (2007) Galapagos vertebrates: endangered status and conservation actions. Galapagos Report 2006–2007. Charles Darwin Foundation, Puerto Ayora, p. 104–110.
  • Carrillo, E. Aldás, S., Altamirano, M.A., Ayala-Varela, F., Cisneros-Heredia, D.F., Endara, A., Márquez, C., Morales, M., Nogales-Sornosa, F., Salvador, P., Torres, M.L., Valencia, J., Villamarín-Jurado, F., Yánez-Muñoz, M.H. & Zárate, P. (2005) Lista Roja de los Reptiles del Ecuador. Fundación Novum Milenium, UICN-Sur, UICN-Comité Ecuatoriano, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Serie Proyecto PEEPE. Quito, 46 pp.
  • Garman, S. (1892) The reptiles of the Galapagos Islands. From the collections of Dr. George Baur. Bulletin Essex Inst. 24: 73-87.
  • Heller, E. (1903) Reptiles. In Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos Expedition 1898-1899. Proceedings of the Washington Academy Sciences 5: 39-98.
  • Slevin, J.R. (1935) An account of the reptiles inhabiting the Galápagos Islands. Bulletin New York Zoological Society 38: 1-24.
  • Van Denburgh, J. Slevin, J.R. (1913) The Galapagoan lizards of the genus Tropidurus, with notes on the iguanas of the genera Conolophus and Amblyrhynchus. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 2(1): 133-202, pls. 8-11.
  • Bisconti, M. Landini, W., Bianucci, G., Cantalamessa, G., Carnevale, G. Ragaini, L. & Valleri, G. (2001) Biogeographic relationships of the Galapagos terrestrial biota: parsimony analyses of endemicity based on reptiles, land birds and Scalesia land plants. J. Biogeogr. 28: 495-510.
  • Hong, P.Y. Wheeler, E., Cann, I.KO., Mackie, R.I. (2011) Phylogenetic analysis of the fecal microbial community in herbivorous land and marine iguanas of the Galápagos Islands using 16S rRNA-based pyrosequencing The ISME Journal 5:1461-1470.
  • Arteaga, A. Bustamante, L., Vierira, J., Tapia, W., Guayasamin, J.M. (2019) Reptiles of the Galapagos Life on the Enchanted Islands Tropical Herping