Peripatus evelinae
| Peripatus evelinae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Onychophora |
| Family: | Peripatidae |
| Genus: | Peripatus |
| Species: | P. evelinae
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| Binomial name | |
| Peripatus evelinae (Marcus, 1937)
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Peripatus evelinae is a species of velvet worm in the Peripatidae family.[1] The male of this species has 33 pairs of legs; females have 35 or 36 leg pairs.[2] This species has more legs than any other species of Peripatus; the females of the other species have at most 34 leg pairs, and the males have at most 32.[2] The original description of P. evelinae was based on two specimens and reported females with 32 and 34 leg pairs,[3] but another examination of these specimens revealed a male with 33 leg pairs and a female with 35 leg pairs instead[4] as well as numerous embryos, including females with 35 and 36 leg pairs.[2] The male specimen is 44 mm long; the female is 65 mm long.[2] The type locality is in Goiás, Brazil.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Oliveira, I.; Hering, L. & Mayer, G. "Updated Onychophora checklist". Onychophora Website. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
- ^ a b c d Froehlich, Claudio G. (1968-03-01). "On some Brazilian Onychophores". Beiträge zur Neotropischen Fauna. 5 (3): 160–171. doi:10.1080/01650526809360404. ISSN 0005-8130.
- ^ Marcus, Ernst (1937). "Um Onychophoro novo, Peripatus (Epiperipatus) evelinae, spec. nov. de Goyaz". Revista do Museu Paulista (in Portuguese). 21: 903–910 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ Oliveira, Ivo de Sena; Lacorte, Gustavo A.; Weck-Heimann, Andreas; Cordeiro, Lívia M.; Wieloch, Alfredo H.; Mayer, Georg (2015-05-04). "A new and critically endangered species and genus of Onychophora (Peripatidae) from the Brazilian savannah – a vulnerable biodiversity hotspot". Systematics and Biodiversity. 13 (3): 211–233. doi:10.1080/14772000.2014.985621. ISSN 1477-2000. S2CID 86151143 – via ResearchGate.
- ^ 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. Bibcode:2012ZooK..211....1O. doi:10.3897/zookeys.211.3463. PMC 3426840. PMID 22930648.
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