List of Fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador

In preparation for the IUCN Redlist Assessment for the fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, we have reviewed the literature to date and surveyed the observations of the various experts and naturalists most familiar with the region. Using this information, we have assembled a list of fishes know to occur on the islands (Table 1). We define the area as the islands and adjoining shelf slope to the abyssal region, and evaluate whether each species comprises a resident population or is a vagrant (likely not to be a self-recruiting population). We consider species that are limited to the islands as endemics, notwithstanding vagrant reports at adjacent areas (e.g. the well-known red-lipped batfish Ogcocephalus darwini).