Peripatopsis sedgwicki

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Peripatopsis sedgwicki
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Onychophora
Class:
Udeonychophora
Order:
Euonychophora
Family:
Peripatopsidae
Genus:
Peripatopsis
Species:
P. sedgwicki
Binomial name
Peripatopsis sedgwicki
Purcell, 1899
Synonyms
  • Peripatus dewaali (Weber, 1898)

Peripatopsis sedgwicki is a species of velvet worm in the Peripatopsidae family.[1] This species can have either 20 or 21 pairs of legs,[2] but descriptions usually report 20 pairs of clawed legs (with the last pair of legs reduced more in the male than in the female).[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.; Picker, Mike D.; Cowlin, Ross M.; Hamer, Michelle L. (2009-05-01). "Unravelling evolutionary lineages among South African velvet worms (Onychophora: Peripatopsis) provides evidence for widespread cryptic speciation". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 97 (1): 200–216. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01205.x. ISSN 0024-4066.
  3. ^ Hamer, M.L.; Samways, M.J.; Ruhberg, H. (1997). "A review of the Onychophora of South Africa, with discussion of their conservation". Annals of the Natal Museum. 38(1): 283–312.
  4. ^ 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.
  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.


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