Alexander Sánchez-Ruiz
BornMarch, 1973
Nationality Cuba
Scientific career
FieldsArachnologist
InstitutionsInstituto Butantan

Alexander Sánchez-Ruiz is a Cuban arachnologist, with contributions in taxonomy of haplogyne spiders. PhD. in the University of Alicante, Spain.

Selected publications

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  • Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & A.D. Brescovit (2013). The genus Loxosceles Heineken & Lowe (Araneae: Sicariidae) in Cuba and Hispaniola, West Indies. Zootaxa 3731 (2): 212-222. [1]
  • Sánchez-Ruiz, A., N.I. Platnick, and N. Dupérré (2010). A new genus of the spider family Caponiidae (Araneae, Haplogynae) from the West Indies. American Museum Novitates 3705: 1–44. [2]
  • Brescovit, A.D. & A. Sánchez-Ruiz (2013). The first species of the genus Caponina from Brazilian Amazonia (Araneae: Caponiidae). Zootaxa 3640 (2): 296-298. [3]
  • Sánchez-Ruiz, A. (2010) Una nueva especie del género Nops Macleay, 1839 (Araneae, Caponiidae) procedente de Islas Vírgenes de Estados Unidos de América, Antillas Menores. Novitates Caribaea 3: 22-31. [4]
  • Sánchez-Ruiz, A. (2005) Una nueva especie de Nops MacLeay, 1839 (Araneae, Caponiidae) de República Dominicana. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 11: 23-27.
  • Sánchez-Ruiz, A. (2004) Current taxonomic status of the family Caponiidae (Arachnida, Araneae) in Cuba with the description of two new species. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 9: 95-102. [5]

Taxa described

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  • Researcher from FAPESP [6]


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