Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Anyphaenoides pacifica
Arañas fantasma, Ghost spiders
This species occurs in all vegetation zones from sea level to summit of islands: Littoral zone, Arid zone (coastal and summit), Bursera forest, Transition zone, Culture zone, Scalesia forest, Fernsedge zone.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Superfamily
Dictynoidea
Family
Anyphaenidae
Genus
Anyphaenoides
Species
pacifica
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Bartolomé, Champion, Española, Fernandina, Floreana, Gardner nr Española, Genovesa, Isabela (Cerro Aul, Sierra Negra, V. Alcedo, V. Darwin, V. Wolf), Marchena, Pinta, Pinzón, Rábida, N. Plaza, S. Plaza, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, Santiago, Seymour Norte, Wolf. -South to Central America Trinidad to Chile (Baert et al., 2023).
- Baert, L. (1995) The Anyphaenidae of the Galápagos Archipelago and Cocos Island, with a redescription of Anyphaenoides pluridentata Berland, 1913. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 10: 10-14.
- Baert, L.L. Maelfait, J.P. & Desender, K. (1989) Results of the Belgian 1988-expedition to the Galápagos Islands: Araneae. Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg. Entomol. 59: 5-22.
- Baert, L.L. Maelfait, J.-P. & Desender, K. (1989) Results of the Belgian 1986-expedition: Araneae, and Provisional Checklist of the Spiders of the Galápagos Archipelago. Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg. Entomol. 58: 29-54.
- Baert, L.L. (1987) Spiders of the Galápagos Islands. Part 4. Miscellaneous Families 2. Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg. Entomol. 57: 141-155.
- Baert, L.L. Malfait, J.-P., Hendrickx, F. & Desender, K. (2008) Distribution and Habitat Preference of the Spiders (Araneae) of Galápagos. Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg. Entomol. 78: 39-111.
- 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, Anyphaenoides pacifica", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=5544. Accessed 18 October 2026.