Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Canacea snodgrassii (Coquillett, 1901)

mosca, fly

Collected on intertidal rocks.

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Insecta

Order
Diptera

Suborder
Brachycera

Family
Canacidae

Genus
Canacea

Species
snodgrassii

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: Panama; Fernandina, Isabela, Santa Cruz.

References

  • Coquillett, D.W. (1901) Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos Expedition, 1898-1899. II. Entomological Results (2): Diptera. Proc. Washington Acad. Sc. 3: 371-379.
  • Curran, C.H. (1932) The Norwegian Zoological Expedition to the Galapagos Islands 1925, Conducted by Alf Wollebæk. 4. Diptera. (Excl. of Tipulidae and Culicidae). Medd. Zool. Mus., Oslo 30: 347-366.
  • 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 Charles Darwin Research Station, unpublished, 64 pp.
  • Wirth, W.W. (1969) New species and records of Galápagos Diptera. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sc., Fourth Series 36(20): 571-594.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Canacea snodgrassii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12389. Accessed 4 June 2026.