Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Mysmena santacruzi
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Superfamily
Araneoidea
Family
Mysmenidae
Genus
Mysmena
Species
santacruzi
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Calomyspoena santacruzi Baert & Maelfait, 1983;
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Distribution: Only known from Galápagos. Galápagos distribution: Española, Fernandina, Floreana, Isabela (Sierra Negra, V. Alcedo, V. Darwin, V. Wolf), Pinzón, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Santa Fé, Santiago, Seymour Norte (Baert et al., 2023).
- Baert, L. Jean-Pierre Maelfait, Konjev Desender, Frederik Hendrickx (2023) Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1–188.
- Buchholz, S. Baert, L., Rodríguez, J., E Causton, C., & Jäger, H. (2020) Spiders in Galapagos–diversity, biogeography and origin. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 130(1), 41-48.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Mysmena santacruzi", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=18532. Accessed 18 October 2026.