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List of Galapagos Islands species extinct in the Holocene

This is a list of Galápagos Islands species extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) and continues to the present day.

This list includes species that have gone extinct from the Galápagos Islands, an island archipelago belonging to Ecuador.

Many species have disappeared from the Galápagos Islands as part of the ongoing Holocene extinction, driven by human activity.

Mammals (class Mammalia)

Rodents (order Rodentia)

Hamsters, voles, lemmings, muskrats, and New World rats and mice (family Cricetidae)

Birds (class Aves)

Perching birds (order Passeriformes)

Tanagers (family Thraupidae)

Tyrant flycatchers (family Tyrannidae)

Reptiles (class Reptilia)

Turtles and tortoises (order Testudines)

Tortoises (family Testudinidae)

Extinct in the wild

Ray-finned fish (class Actinopterygii)

Ovalentaria incertae sedis

Family Pomacentridae

Possibly extinct

Copepods (class Copepoda)

Order Calanoida

Family Diaptomidae

Starfishes (class Asteroidea)

Order Forcipulatida

Family Heliasteridae

Possibly extinct

Brown algae (class Phaeophyceae)

Order Fucales

Family Sargassaceae

Possibly extinct

Red algae (division Rhodophyta)

Order Nemaliales

Family Galaxauraceae

Possibly extinct

Order Ceramiales

Family Delesseriaceae

Possibly extinct

Plants (kingdom Plantae)

Order Asterales

Sunflowers (family Asteraceae)

Order Caryophyllales

Amaranths (family Amaranthaceae)

Order Cucurbitales

Gourds (family Cucurbitaceae)

Notes

References