Opisthopatus cinctipes

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Opisthopatus cinctipes
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Onychophora
Class: Udeonychophora
Order: Euonychophora
Family: Peripatopsidae
Genus: Opisthopatus
Species:
O. cinctipes
Binomial name
Opisthopatus cinctipes
Purcell, 1899

Opisthopatus cinctipes is a species of velvet worm in the Peripatopsidae family.[1] This species has 16 pairs of legs, all with claws and all used for walking.[2][3][4] The type locality is in South Africa.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ Oliveira I. S.; Hering L.; Mayer, G. "Updated Onychophora checklist". Onychophora Website. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  2. ^ Daniels, Savel R.; Dambire, Charlene; Klaus, Sebastian; Sharma, Prashant P. (2016). "Unmasking alpha diversity, cladogenesis and biogeographical patterning in an ancient panarthropod lineage (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae: Opisthopatus cinctipes) with the description of five novel species". Cladistics. 32 (5): 506–537. doi:10.1111/cla.12154. ISSN 1096-0031.
  3. ^ Purcell, W.F. (1899). "On the South African species of Peripatidae in the collection of the South African Museum". Annals of the South African Museum. 1: 331–351 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  4. ^ Purcell, W.F. (1900). "On the anatomy of Opisthopatus cinctipes Purcell, with notes on other, principally South African Onychophora". Annals of the South African Museum. 2: 67–116 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  5. ^ Oliveira, I. S.; Read, V. M. S. J.; Mayer, G. (2012). "A world checklist of Onychophora (velvet worms), with notes on nomenclature and status of names". ZooKeys (211): 1–70. doi:10.3897/zookeys.211.3463. PMC 3426840. PMID 22930648.

Further reading[]

  • Storch, V.; Ruhberg, H. (1977). "Formation of spermatophore of Opisthopatus cinctipes Percell, 1899 (Onychophora, Peripatopsidae)". Zoomorphologie. 87 (3): 263–276. doi:10.1007/BF00995824. S2CID 25566521.
  • Storch, V.; Alberti, G.; Ruhberg, H. (1979). "Light and electron microscopical investigations of the salivary glands of Opisthopatus cinctipes and Peripatopsis moseleyi (Onychophora, Peripatopsidae)". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 203 (1–2): 35–47.
  • Braband, A.; Cameron, S. L.; Podsiadlowski, L.; Daniels, S. R.; Meyer, G. (2010). "The mitochondrial genome of the onychophoran Opisthopatus cinctipes (Peripatopsidae) reflects the ancestral mitochondrial gene arrangement of Panarthropoda and Ecdysozoa". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 57 (1): 285–292. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.05.011. PMID 20493270.
  • Ruhberg, H.; Storch, V. (1978). "Ultrastructure of accessory genital glands of Opisthopatus cinctipes (Onychophora, Peripatopsidae)". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 200 (5–6): 289–299.
  • Walker, M. H. (1992). "Seminal receptacula in the female reproductive-tract of Opisthopatus cinctipes Purcell (Onychophora, Peripatopsidae)". Journal of Morphology. 213 (1): 15–20. doi:10.1002/jmor.1052130103. PMID 29865585. S2CID 46933693.
  • Walker, M. H. (1995). "Relatively recent evolution of an unusual pattern of early-embryonic development (long germ band) in a South-African onychophoran Opisthopatus cinctipes Purcell (Onychophora, Peripatopsidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 144 (1): 61–75. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1995.tb00112.x.


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