Galapagos Species Database
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Parachernes galapagensis
Pseudoscorpión, Pseudoscorpion
Found in soil, littoral zone, arid zone, agriculture zone, transition zone, scalesia zone, Fernsedge zone and in crevices.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Pseudoscorpiones
Family
Chernetidae
Genus
Parachernes
Species
galapagensis
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
Distribution: Bartolomé, Española, Fernandina, Floreana, Isabela, Marchena, North Plaza, Pinta, Pinzón, Rábida, Santiago, Santa Cruz, Seymour Norte, Santa Fé and South Plaza.
- Peck, S.B. (1990) Eyeless arthropods of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador: Composition and origin of the cryptozoic fauna of a young, tropical, oceanic archipelago. Biotropica 22(4): 366-381.
- Peck, S.B. Kulalova-Peck, J. (1986) Preliminary summary of the subterranean fauna of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Part I. Introduction and Non-Insect invertebrates. Proc. 9th Intnl. Congr. Speleology, Barcelona 2: 164-166.
- Baert, L. Mahnert, V. (2015) The distribution of the non‐araneae and non‐acari arachnids of Galápagos Belgian Journal of Entomology 28: 1‐76
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