Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Meoneura sinclairi
mosca, fly
Collected on wet rocks and beach of the littoral zone and on blossoms of Palo Santo trees. Specimens were collected on a variety of substrates including marine iguana nesting sites and sea lion beach. This indicates that this species is highly salt tolerant (Wheeler 2000). Several species of Carnidae are known to specialize on excrements and pellets in bird nesting areas and carrion along shorelines (Brake 1997).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Suborder
Brachycera
Family
Carnidae
Genus
Meoneura
Species
sinclairi
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
Distribution: Baltra, Española, Floreana, Genovesa, Marchena, Pinta, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Seymour, Wolf.
- Sinclair, B. J. (2023) An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador). Zootaxa, 5283, 1-102
- Sinclair, B.J. Peck, S.B. (2005) An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador). Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.
- Wheeler, T.A. (2000) Carnidae of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador: description and phylogenetic relationships of a new species of Neotropical Meoneura Rondani, 1856 (Diptera: Carnidae). Studia Dipterologica 7: 115-120.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Meoneura sinclairi", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12306. Accessed 2 February 2026.