Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Skogsbergia galapagensis
ostracodo, Ostracod
small (vestigial) unpigmented eyes,
Found in subterranean anchialine salt and brackish waters. Only member known from anchialine caves.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Ostracoda
Order
Myodocopida
Suborder
Myodocopina
Superfamily
Cypridinoidea
Family
Cypridinidae
Section
Cypridinini
Genus
Skogsbergia
Species
galapagensis
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- Boxshall, G.A. Iliffe, T.M. (1990) Three New Species of Misophrioid Copepods from Oceanic Islands. J. Nat. Hist. 24(3): 595-613.
- Iliffe, T.M. (1991) Anchialine Fauna of the Galapagos Islands In: James, M.J. (ed.): Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 209-231.
- Peck, S.B. (1994) Diversity and zoogeography of the non-oceanic Crustacea of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (excluding terrestrial Isopoda). Canadian Journal of Zoology 72: 54-69.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Skogsbergia galapagensis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=14035. Accessed 31 October 2026.