List of animals in the Galápagos Islands

This is a list of animals that live in the Galápagos Islands.

The fauna of the Galápagos Islands include a total of 9,000 confirmed species.

Of them, none have been introduced by humans, and seventeen are endemic.

[citation needed] Due to amphibians intolerance of saltwater, no amphibians naturally occur on the Galapagos Islands.

Over fifty species of spiders, including the giant crab spider (Heteropoda venatoria), the smaller Selenops and Galapa, the endemic Lathrodectes apicalis, Argiope argentata and Neoscona oaxacensis (syn.