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Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Helicosporium guianense Linder
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Iodophanus carneus (Pers.) Korf
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Tetracrium incarnatum G.W. Martin
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Collaria elegans (Racib.) Dhillon & Nann.-Bremek.
Sargassum galapagense Grunow, 1886
Species Database Sargassum galapagense Grunow, 1886
Sargassum templetonii Setchell
Species Database Sargassum templetonii Setchell
Sargassum pacificum f. congestum Setchell
Species Database Sargassum pacificum f. congestum Setchell
Sargassum zacae Setchell
Species Database Sargassum zacae Setchell
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Laurencia mediocris Setchell & N.L. Gardner
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Dactylosiphon bullosus (D.A.Saunders) Santiañez, K.M.Lee, S.M.Boo & Kogame in Santiañez
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Humans in the Galápagos Islands
Youth Environment Science Virtual Exchange - Galapagos and Germany
Billy Bensted-Smith/CDF
Rediscovered Coral Signals Hope for Galapagos Reefs

A scientific team led by the Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF) and the California Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with the Galapagos National Park Directorate (GNPD) has confirmed that Rhizopsammia wellingtoni—a solitary coral thought to be lost for a generation— is alive and clinging to Galapagos’ underwater cliffs.

Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Gnathanodon speciosus (Forsskål, 1775)
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Trinectes fonsecensis (Günther, 1862)
Five New Sub-Species of the Marine Iguana in Galapagos
Botryocladia tenuissima W.R. Taylor
Species Database Botryocladia tenuissima W.R. Taylor
Juan Manuel Garcia-CDF
Natural History Collections

The Charles Darwin Foundation is home to the largest Natural History Collections of endemic, native and introduced species of Galapagos in Ecuador, with more than 135,000 specimens and 7,500 species across four Collections: Marine, Vertebrate, Terrestrial Invertebrate and a Herbarium.

Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Platyptilia vilema Landry, 1993
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Tebenna galapagoensis Heppner & Landry, 1994