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Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Physalis pubescens L.
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Sapindus saponaria L.
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Opuntia insularis Stewart
Species Database Opuntia insularis Stewart
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Opuntia saxicola Howell
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L.
Species Database Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L.
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Ocimum campechianum Mill.
Teddy Zambrano, Sergio Zanchi, Oscar Cardenas y entire Connie Jean Two crew
Historic Sighting of White shark in Ecuador

Researchers from the Charles Darwin Foundation and the Galapagos National Park have published the first confirmed record of a white shark in Ecuadorian waters. The encounter, roughly ninety kilometers west of Wolf Island and outside the Galapagos Marine Reserve (GMR), marks an unusual sighting of this species in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, where sightings south of Mexico's coastline are exceptionally rare.