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Escaphiella cristobal Platnick & Dupéré, 2009

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Arachnida

Order
Araneae

Superfamily
Dysderoidea

Family
Oonopidae

Genus
Escaphiella

Species
cristobal

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Endemic

Distribution

Distribution: Santa Cruz, San Cristóbal (Baert et al., 2023).

References

Baert, L. Jean-Pierre Maelfait, Konjev Desender, Frederik Hendrickx (2023) Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1–188.
Buchholz, S. Baert, L., Rodríguez, J., E Causton, C., & Jäger, H. (2020) Spiders in Galapagos–diversity, biogeography and origin. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 130(1), 41-48.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Escaphiella cristobal", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=11987. Accessed 1 November 2026.