Species Profile
Geospiza fuliginosa
Small ground finch
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassAves
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Common on Galápagos Islands.
Ground-dwelling and active.
Shows specialization for small food items.
Size & Structure
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Small body
02
Thin conical beak
03
Dark brown colour
04
Light build
Geospiza fuliginosa — 3D Model
No 3D model available
General Features
- Coelom
- True coelom
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Deuterostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Well developed
- Excretory organ
- Kidneys
- Body temperature
- Homeothermic
- Circulatory type
- Closed, double, complete
- Development type
- Direct
- Respiratory type
- Lungs with air sacs
- Mode of excretion
- Uricotelism
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Consumes small seeds
Reduces seed overlap
Ground niche specialist
Economic Importance
Adaptive radiation studies
Evolutionary biology
Education value