diff --git a/src/mono/browser/debugger/DebuggerTestSuite/MiscTests.cs b/src/mono/browser/debugger/DebuggerTestSuite/MiscTests.cs
index d82c2ecb22006f..3b0d795dfe5f4d 100644
--- a/src/mono/browser/debugger/DebuggerTestSuite/MiscTests.cs
+++ b/src/mono/browser/debugger/DebuggerTestSuite/MiscTests.cs
@@ -1200,5 +1200,24 @@ public async Task TestDebugUsingMultiThreadedRuntime(int _attempt)
             Assert.Equal(locals[1]["value"]["type"], "number");
             Assert.Equal(locals[1]["name"], "currentThread");
         }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public async Task InspectSpanByte()
+        {
+            var expression = $"{{ invoke_static_method('[debugger-test] SpanByte:Run'); }}";
+
+            await EvaluateAndCheck(
+                "window.setTimeout(function() {" + expression + "; }, 1);",
+                "dotnet://debugger-test.dll/debugger-test.cs", 1684, 8,
+                "SpanByte.Run",
+                wait_for_event_fn: async (pause_location) =>
+                {
+                    var id = pause_location["callFrames"][0]["callFrameId"].Value<string>();
+                    await EvaluateOnCallFrameAndCheck(id,
+                        ("span", TObject("System.Span<byte>", null))
+                    );
+                }
+            );
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/mono/browser/debugger/tests/debugger-test/debugger-test.cs b/src/mono/browser/debugger/tests/debugger-test/debugger-test.cs
index c06a12a60dd87f..f4132f82c4a820 100644
--- a/src/mono/browser/debugger/tests/debugger-test/debugger-test.cs
+++ b/src/mono/browser/debugger/tests/debugger-test/debugger-test.cs
@@ -1675,4 +1675,13 @@ public static void Run()
             BreakpointTestsClass bpTest = new();
         }
     }
+}
+
+public class SpanByte
+{
+    public static void Run()
+    {
+        System.Span<byte> span = new ();
+        System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break();
+    }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/mono/mono/component/debugger-agent.c b/src/mono/mono/component/debugger-agent.c
index a4c97afcff2cb3..7c0a93093e347a 100644
--- a/src/mono/mono/component/debugger-agent.c
+++ b/src/mono/mono/component/debugger-agent.c
@@ -5581,6 +5581,7 @@ decode_value_compute_size (MonoType *t, int type, MonoDomain *domain, guint8 *bu
 	if (type != t->type && !MONO_TYPE_IS_REFERENCE (t) &&
 		!(t->type == MONO_TYPE_I && type == MONO_TYPE_VALUETYPE) &&
 		!(type == VALUE_TYPE_ID_FIXED_ARRAY) &&
+		!(type == MDBGPROT_VALUE_TYPE_ID_NULL) &&
 		!(t->type == MONO_TYPE_U && type == MONO_TYPE_VALUETYPE) &&
 		!(t->type == MONO_TYPE_PTR && type == MONO_TYPE_I8) &&
 		!(t->type == MONO_TYPE_FNPTR && type == MONO_TYPE_I8) &&