Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Tetragnatha lewisi
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Superfamily
Araneoidea
Family
Tetragnathidae
Genus
Tetragnatha
Species
lewisi
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Native
Distribution: Distribution: Jamaica. Galápagos distribution: Found on sea surface (Baert et al., 2023). Santa Fe
- 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, Tetragnatha lewisi", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=18540. Accessed 1 November 2026.