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Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Hymeniacidon perlevis (Montagu, 1814)
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Fissurella macrotrema G. B. Sowerby I, 1835
Remembering Craig George MacFarland

The world conservation movement and the Galapagos Islands lost a passionate supporter, pioneering conservationist, mentor and friend with the death of Dr. Craig George MacFarland in April 2025.

Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Myxine martinii Mincarone, Plachetzki, McCord, Winegard, Fernholm, Gonzalez & Fudge, 2021
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Gaza rathbuni Dall, 1890
Gelidium hancockii W.R. Taylor
Species Database Gelidium hancockii W.R. Taylor
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Cerithiopsis galapagensis Bartsch, 1911
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Tonicia arnheimi Dall, 1903
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Natica brunneolinea J. H. McLean, 1970
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Boccardia galapagense Blake, 1986
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Tegula snodgrassi (Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1902)
Eight Mangrove Finches Returned Home
Gelidium pusillum var. pacificum W.R. Taylor
Species Database Gelidium pusillum var. pacificum W.R. Taylor
Asparagopsis svedelii W.R.Taylor
Species Database Asparagopsis svedelii W.R.Taylor
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Eochionelasmus paquensis Yamaguchi & Newman, 1997
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Berlanguella scopae Ortea, Bacallado & Valdés, 1992
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Thorunna talaverai Ortea, Bacallado & Valdés, 1992
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Aphaniosoma rabida Wheeler, 1994
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.

Dictyota major W.R. Taylor
Species Database Dictyota major W.R. Taylor