Seychelles

The amphibian fauna is highly distinctive with one family, the Sooglossidae, sometimes considered to be restricted entirely to the Seychelles and including the tiny Gardiner's Seychelles Frog (EDGE), the Seychelles Palm Frog (EDGE), the Seychelles Frog (EDGE), and Thomasset's Frog (ARKive). Other endemic genera of amphibians include the Seychelles Tree Frog Tachycnemis (AmphibiaWeb), the caecilians Grandisonia (eol), the Frigate Island Caecilian Hypogeophis (eol), and Cooper's Black Caecilian Praslinia (EDGE).

Birds found nowhere else include the Seychelles Kestrel (ARKive), the Seychelles Scops Owl (IUCN Red List), the Seychelles Blue Pigeon (Nature Seychelles), the Seychelles Swiftlet (BirdLife Int'l), the Aldabra Drongo (Morten Jorgensen), the Seychelles Paradise Flycatcher (ARKive), the Seychelles Bulbul (IBC), the Seychelles Warbler (ARKive), the Seychelles White-eye (Nature Seychelles), the Seychelles Magpie-Robin (ARKive), the Seychelles Sunbird (Nature Seychelles), the Seychelles Fody (ARKive) and the extinct Seychelles Parakeet (Wikipedia) and Aldabra Brush Warbler (NHM-London). Also sometimes considered to be full species are the Seychelles Black Parrot (Nature Seychelles) and the Aldabra Rail (ARKive).

Endemic mammals include the Seychelles Sheath-tailed Bat (EDGE) and the Aldabra Flying Fox (ARKive).

Reptiles known only from the Seychelles include the Aldabra Giant Tortoise (ARKive) and the recently rediscovered Arnold's Giant Tortoise (Wikipedia), and Seychelles Giant Tortoise (Island Biodiversity). Other endemic reptiles include the Seychelles Wolf Snake (ARKive), the Seychelles House Snake Lamprophis geometricus (Eli Greenbaum), the Tiger Chameleon (ARKive), the Giant Bronze Gecko (ARKive), the Seychelles Sucker-tailed Gecko (nephrurus.org), the Seychelles Giant Day Gecko (Phelsumania), Brauer's Burrowing Skink (ARKive), Gardiner’s Burrowing Skink Pamelaescincus gardineri (Eli Greenbaum), Wright's Skink (ARKive), and the Seychelles Mud Turtle (Turtles of the World).

Freshwater fish unique to the Seychelles are the Golden Panchax (FishBase) and a dartfish Parioglossus multiradiatus (FishBase). Endemic marine fish include the Seychelles Anemonefish (eol), a perchlet Plectranthias gardineri (eol), an eel Myroconger seychellensis (FishBase), a cheek-spine goby Asterropteryx gubbina (Phelsuma pdf file), a seahorse Hippocampus tyro (eol), and an endemic genus of scorpionfish Pogonoscorpius (Internet Archive).

Butterflies confined to the Seychelles include the Seychelles Crow Euploea mitra and Phalanta philiberti (both on p. 2 of Bio-Nica pdf file) and Belenois aldabrensis (Skap's Bug Stamps). Other endemic insects include the Seychelles Bee-hawkmoth (Island Biodiversity), the Seychelles Fineliner Damselfly (ARKive), the Giant Fregate Beetle (ARKive), a longhorned beetle Leptocera aldabrensis (Smithsonian), a stink bug Amirantea aldabrensis (Phelsuma pdf file), an ant Solenopsis seychellensis (AntWeb), a stick insect Carausius sechellensis (Guy Van Heygen), and the grasshoppers Enoplotettix gardineri (p. 11 of Kapisen pdf file) and Conipoda (or Pternoscirta) aldabrae (SysTax). 

Endemic land snails include Pachnodus fregatensis (ARKive), Stylodonta unidentata (IUCN Red List), Priodiscus serratus (ARKive), Edentulina moreleti (ARKive), Streptaxis souleyetianus (fig. 2 on p. 17 of Biologiezentrum 5 MB pdf file), Cyathopoma picardense (ARKive), and Silhouettia silhouettae (ARKive). Other endemic invertebrates include the world's largest millipede Seychelleptus seychellarum (Guy Van Heygen), a trapdoor spider Conothele truncicola (p. 2 of Phelsuma pdf file), a goblin spider Cousinea keeleyi (AMNH), a freshwater crab Seychellum alluaudi (Caridea), and a coral Fasciclia ofwegeni (p. 17 of Zool. Med. Leiden pdf file).

The Jellyfish Tree (ARKive) is sometimes considered to be the sole member of  an endemic family, the Medusagynaceae. The Coco-de-mer (ARKive) has the largest seed of any plant. Other endemic palm genera include Roscheria (ARKive), Verschaffeltia (PACSOA), Phoenicophorium (ARKive), Deckenia (ARKive), and Nephrosperma (PACSOA). Other endemic genera include the Kapisen Northia (p. 2 of Kapisen pdf file), Glionnetia (ARKive), Hypoxidia (gardenbreizh.org), Protarum (p. 7 of Kapisen pdf file), Paragenipa (botany.cz), and Vateriopsis (p. 15 of Kapisen pdf file). Other endemic plants include the Seychelles Pepper (ARKive), Wright's Gardenia (ARKive), the Seychelles Pitcher Plant (Nature Seychelles), the Bwa Klate (ARKive), Impatiens gordonii (Plant Talk), Colea seychellarum (ARKive), Pandanus aldabraensis (ARKive), and an orchid Malaxis seychellarum (SOF).

The Seychelles are part of the Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands biodiversity hotspot (Biodiversity Hotspots). They comprise the Granitic Seychelles Forests (EoE) and the Aldabra Island Xeric Scrub (WWF) terrestrial ecoregions and the Seychelles freshwater ecoregion (FEOW).