Abstract We confirm the presence of the shrimp Solenocera membranacea (Risso, 1816) (Solenoceridae) in the Canary Islands. In this region, the species was only known from the capture of a specimen on the island of Lanzarote. The present finding based on a male collected on the island of Tenerife represents the second record. The data suggest that the species may be preferentially associated with soft mobile substrates, especially muddy ones, on continental shelves and upper slopes, while its presence on the hard bottoms of the volcanic archipelagos of Macaronesia would be testimonial.