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The Galapagos racer is near threatened due to recently introduced species that feed on snake eggs, including pigs, rats, mice, and cats. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is one of only three species of snakes on the Galápagos Islands, and it was first described in 1860.
Striped Galapagos racer (Pseudalsophis steindachneri) Yellow-bellied sea snake (Hydrophis platurus) Barrington leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus barringtonensis) Baur's leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus baurii) Darwin's leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus darwini) Española leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus gorii) Galapagos leaf-toed gecko ...
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Pseudalsophis slevini , the Banded Galapagos snake or Pinzon racer, is a species of snake of the family Colubridae. It is named for Joseph Slevin , a curator at the California Academy of Sciences . Geographic range
In April 2009, lava from the volcanic island Fernandina started flowing both towards the island's shoreline and into the center caldera. [citation needed] In late June 2018, Sierra Negra, one of five volcanoes on Isabela and one of the most active in the Galapagos archipelago, began erupting for the first time since 2005.
Bathymetric map of area around the Galápagos microplate with main tectonic features marked. The 13,000 km 2 Galápagos microplate lies at the western end of the GSC. It is bounded to the west by strands of the East Pacific Rise, to the southeast by the Dietz Volcanic Ridge and the Dietz Deep rift, and to the north by the GSC. [4]
Thomas's racer is endemic to the islands of Santiago, Bartolomé, and Rábida. Its total estimated range is approximately 459 km 2 It is the more common of the two snake species found on Santiago and Rábida, the other being the much rarer Pseudalsophis hephaestus or Santiago racer. It is also the only snake species known to be present on ...
Honorary citizen of Puerto Bacquerizo, I. San Cristobal, Galapagos- 2005– Since 2010, she has been honoured annually by the Society for the Study of Evolution with the Rosemary Grant Graduate Student Research Award competition, which supports "students in the early stages of their PhD programs by enabling them to collect preliminary data ...