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 and continues to the present day.

Mammals (class [[Mammalia]])

=== Rodents (order Rodentia) === ==== Hamsters, voles, lemmings, muskrats, and New World rats and mice (family Cricetidae) ==== == Birds (class Aves) ==

Birds (class [[Aves]])

=== Perching birds (order Passeriformes) === ==== Tanagers (family Thraupidae) ==== ==== Tyrant flycatchers (family Tyrannidae) ==== == Reptiles (class Reptilia) ==

Reptiles (class [[Reptilia]])

=== Turtles and tortoises (order Testudines) === ==== Tortoises (family Testudinidae) ==== Extinct in the wild == Ray-finned fish (class Actinopterygii) ==

Ray-finned fish (class [[Actinopterygii]])

=== Ovalentaria incertae sedis === ==== Family Pomacentridae ==== Possibly extinct == Copepods (class Copepoda) ==

Copepods (class [[Copepod|Copepoda]])

=== Order Calanoida === ==== Family Diaptomidae ==== == Starfishes (class Asteroidea) ==

Starfishes (class [[Asteroidea]])

=== Order Forcipulatida === ==== Family Heliasteridae ==== Possibly extinct ==Brown algae (class Phaeophyceae)==

Brown algae (class [[Phaeophyceae]])

=== Order Desmarestiales === ==== Acid weeds (family Desmarestiaceae) ==== Possibly extinct === Order Fucales === ==== Family Sargassaceae ==== Possibly extinct ==Red algae (division Rhodophyta)==

Red algae (division [[Rhodophyta]])

=== Order Nemaliales === ==== Family Galaxauraceae ==== Possibly extinct === Order Ceramiales === ==== Family Delesseriaceae ==== Possibly extinct ==Plants (kingdom Plantae)==

Plants (kingdom [[Plantae]])

=== Order Asterales === ==== Sunflowers (family Asteraceae) ==== === Order Caryophyllales === ==== Amaranths (family Amaranthaceae) ==== === Order Cucurbitales === ==== Gourds (family Cucurbitaceae) ==== == Notes ==

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