Galapagos Species Database
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Colombophiloscia naevigesta
eyeless
found in caves and soil
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Isopoda
Suborder
Oniscidea
Family
Philoniscidae
Genus
Colombophiloscia
Species
naevigesta
Taxon category: Accepted
- Peck, S.B. Peck, J. (1986) The Galapagos Islands. Volcanic caves and cave fauna of the Galapagos Islands. The Canadian Caver 18(1): 42-49.
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Colombophiloscia naevigesta", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=13985. Accessed 31 October 2026.