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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.
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
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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This spreading center truncates into the East Pacific Rise on the west and is bounded by the Cocos Ridge and Carnegie Ridge in the east. Furthermore, the Galápagos Hotspot is at the northern boundary of the Pacific Large Low Shear Velocity Province while the Easter Hotspot is on the southern boundary. [9] [10] [11]
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]
Daphne Major is a volcanic island just north of Santa Cruz Island and just west of the Baltra Airport in the Archipelago of Colón, commonly known as the Galápagos Islands. [1] [2] It consists of a tuff crater, devoid of trees, whose rim rises 120 m (394 ft) above the sea.