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Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Triakis maculata Kner & Steindachner, 1867
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Odontaspis ferox (Risso, 1810)
Pelayo Salinas de León/CDF
Silky Shark Tagging Study Reveals Gaps in Marine Protected Areas

Satellite tagging reveals that silky sharks spend nearly half their time outside Eastern Tropical Pacific marine reserves, exposing them to intense industrial fishing. Tracking 40 sharks from Galápagos, researchers uncover critical gaps in MPA networks and call for expanded protections to better safeguard this vulnerable, wide-ranging species in the region.

Pelayo Salinas/CDF
First-ever documented birthing migration of a hammerhead shark

Scientists from the Charles Darwin Foundation’s shark ecology and conservation program and collaborators, have published what is likely the first-ever scientifically recorded birthing migration for the critically endangered scalloped hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini).

Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Unadilla maturella (Zeller, 1881)
Figure 1. Basalt rock from the Galapagos Islands. La Ratonera, Santa Cruz. Photo by: Byron Delgado M.
Galapagos: volcanoes within oceanic islands
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Xyrichtys victori Wellington, 1992
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Tralia vanderbilti Schwengel, 1938
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Usnea rubicunda Stirt.
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Conus chaldaeus (Röding, 1798)
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Berthelinia chloris (Dall, 1918)
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Hyporthodus mystacinus (Poey, 1852)
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Cancellaria gemmulata G. B. Sowerby I, 1832
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Pocillopora meandrina Dana, 1846
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Pristigenys serrula (Gilbert, 1891)
Pseudobalistes naufragium (Jordan & Starks, 1895)
Species Database Pseudobalistes naufragium (Jordan & Starks, 1895)
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Ophichthus rugifer Jordan & Bollman, 1890
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Pavona varians (Verrill, 1864)
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Lutjanus argentiventris (Peters, 1869)
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Myxine phantasma Mincarone, Plachetzki, McCord, Winegard, Fernholm, Gonzalez & Fudge, 2021