Alexander Sánchez-Ruiz

Alexander Sánchez-Ruiz (fl. 2004), Cuban arachnologist.

Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Coordenação de Zoologia, Av. Perimetral, 1901, Terra Firme, CEP 66077−830, Belém, Pará, Brazil.
Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, Butantã, São Paulo CEP: 05503−900, SP, Brazil
Centro Oriental de Ecosistemas y Biodiversidad (BIOECO). Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

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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. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Sánchez-Ruiz, A. 2005. Una nueva especie de Nops MacLeay, 1839 (Araneae, Caponiidae) de República Dominicana. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 11: 23-27. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Sánchez-Ruiz, A. 2010. Una especie nueva del género Nops MacLeay, 1839 (Araneae, Caponiidae) procedente de Islas Vírgenes de Estados Unidos de América, Antillas Menores. Novitates Caribaea 3: 22-31. Reference page.
Sánchez-Ruiz, A., Platnick, N.I. & Dupérré, N. 2010. A new genus of the spider family Caponiidae (Araneae, Haplogynae) from the West Indies. American Museum novitates 3705: 1-44. DOI: 10.1206/3705.2. . Reference page.

Brescovit, A.D. & Sánchez-Ruiz, A. 2013: The first species of the genus Caponina from Brazilian Amazonia (Araneae: Caponiidae). Zootaxa 3640(2): 296–298. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3640.2.11. . Reference page.
Brescovit, A. D. & Ruiz, A. S. 2013. First record of the family Cithaeronidae Simon (Arachnida, Araneae) from Cuba, in the Caribbean Region. Novitates Caribaea (6): 89–91. DOI: 10.33800/NC.V0I6.124Reference page.
Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Brescovit, A.D. 2013: The genus Loxosceles Heineken & Lowe (Araneae: Sicariidae) in Cuba and Hispaniola, West Indies. Zootaxa 3731(2): 212–222. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3731.2.2 Reference page.

Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Brescovit, A.D. 2015: On the taxonomic placement of the Cuban spider Nops ariguanabo Alayón and the description of a new Mexican Tarsonops (Araneae, Caponiidae). Zootaxa 3914(2): 131–143. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3914.2.3. Reference page.
Sánchez-Ruiz, A., Brecovit, A.D. & Alayon, G. 2015. Four new caponiids species (Araneae, Caponiidae) from the West Indies and redescription of Nops blandus (Bryant). Zootaxa 3972(1): 43–64. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3972.1.3 Preview (PDF) Reference page.

Brescovit, A.D. & Sánchez-Ruiz, A. 2016. Descriptions of two new genera of the spider family Caponiidae (Arachnida, Araneae) and an update of Tisentnops and Taintnops from Brazil and Chile. ZooKeys 622: 47–84. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.622.8682. Reference page.
Brescovit, A.D., Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Alayón García, G. 2016. The Filistatidae in the Caribbean region, with a description of the new genus Antilloides, revision of the genus Filistatoides F. O. P.-Cambridge and notes on Kukulcania Lehtinen (Arachnida, Araneae). Zootaxa 4136(3): 401–432. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4136.3.1. Reference page.

Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Brescovit, A.D. 2017. A new genus with seven species of the Subfamily Nopinae (Araneae, Caponiidae) from the Neotropical region. Zootaxa 4291(1): 117–143. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4291.1.7 Reference page.

Brescovit, A.D., Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Bonaldo, A.B. 2018. On the spider genus Syspira Simon, 1895 (Araneae: Miturgidae) in the Caribbean: four new species from Dominican Republic. Zootaxa 4370(1): 57–66. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4370.1.4 Reference page.
Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Brescovit, A.D. 2018. A revision of the spider genus Nops MacLeay (Araneae: Caponiidae) with the first phylogenetic hypothesis for the Nopinae genera.Zootaxa 4427 (1): 001–121. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4427.1.1 Reference page.

Sánchez-Ruiz, A., Brescovit, A.D. & Bonaldo, A.B. 2020. Revision of the spider genus Nyetnops Platnick & Lise (Araneae: Caponiidae) with proposition of the new genus Nopsma, from Central and South America. Zootaxa 4751(3): 461–486. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4751.3.3. . Reference page.
Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Maréchal, P. 2020. Description of the male of Alpaida elegantula (Araneae, Araneidae) and new records of spider genera from Martinique, Lesser Antilles. Caribbean Journal of Science 50(1): 48-53. DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v50i1.a7. Reference page.
Sánchez-Ruiz, A., de los Santos, G., Brescovit, A.D. & Bonaldo, A.B. 2020. The genus Syspira Simon, 1895 (Araneae: Miturgidae) from Hispaniola, with the description of four new species. Zootaxa 4894(3): 413–431. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4894.3.7 . Reference page.

Martínez, L., Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Bonaldo, A.B. 2021. The spider genus Medionops Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit (Araneae: Caponiidae) in Colombia, with the description of four new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 773: 61–79. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.773.1511. . Reference page.
Sánchez-Ruiz, A., Martínez García, L.A. & Bonaldo, A.B. 2021. Three new species of the spider genus Nopsma (Araneae, Caponiidae, Nopinae) from Colombia. Zoosystematics and Evolution 97(2): 383-392. DOI: 10.3897/zse.97.69089. . Reference page.

Sánchez-Ruiz, A., Martínez García, L.A. & Bonaldo, A.B. 2022. An update on the spider genus Caponina Simon (Araneae: Caponiidae) with descriptions of three new six-eyed species from Colombia. European Journal of Taxonomy 813: 87-102. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.813.1735. . Reference page.
de los Santos, G., Ortiz, D. & Sánchez-Ruiz, A. 2022. Ummidia insularis new species, first record of the family Halonoproctidae (Araneae: Mygalomorphae) for Hispaniola. Zootaxa 5092(4): 442–452. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5092.4.3. . Reference page.

Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Bonaldo, A.B. (2023), Strange new spiders: on Roddenberryus, a new and unusual caponiid genus (Araneae, Caponiidae), European Journal of Taxonomy, 891 (1), DOI: 10.5852/EJT.2023.891.2263. Reference page.

Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Bonaldo, A.B. 2024. Four new spider species of Cubanops Sánchez-Ruiz, Platnick & Dupérré from Eastern Cuba (Araneae: Caponiidae). Zootaxa 5448(4): 569–580. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5448.4.8. . Reference page.