Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Mysmena santacruzi (Baert & Maelfait, 1983)

Taxonomy

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

Distribution

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).

References

  • 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.