Galapagos Species Database
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Tyrannochthonius albidus
Pseudoscorpión, Pseudoscorpion
Eyeless fauna, found in soil, cave in the Fern‐sedge zone.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Pseudoscorpiones
Family
Chthoniidae
Genus
Tyrannochthonius
Species
albidus
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
- Baert, L. Mahnert, V. (2015) The distribution of the non‐araneae and non‐acari arachnids of Galápagos Belgian Journal of Entomology 28: 1‐76
- Mahnert, V. (2014) Pseudoscorpions (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) from the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) Revue suisse de Zoologie, 121: 135‐210
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Tyrannochthonius albidus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=14013. Accessed 31 October 2026.