Epiperipatus
| Epiperipatus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Onychophora |
| Class: | Udeonychophora |
| Order: | Euonychophora |
| Family: | Peripatidae |
| Genus: | Epiperipatus Clark, 1913 |
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Epiperipatus is a genus of Neotropical velvet worms in the Peripatidae family.[1][2] The genus includes Epiperipatus imthurni, the only velvet worm known to lack males and instead reproduce via parthenogenesis.[3]
Species
The genus contains the following sixteen species:
- Epiperipatus acacioi (Marcus & Marcus, 1955)
- Epiperipatus adenocryptus Oliveira et al., 2011
- Epiperipatus barbadensis (Froehlich, 1962)
- Epiperipatus barbouri (Brues, 1911)
- Epiperipatus betheli (Cockerell, 1913)
- Epiperipatus biolleyi (Bouvier, 1902)
- Epiperipatus brasiliensis (Bouvier, 1899)
- Epiperipatus broadwayi (Clark, 1913)
- Epiperipatus cratensis Brito et al., 2010
- Epiperipatus diadenoproctus Oliveira et al., 2011
- Epiperipatus edwardsii (Blanchard, 1847)
- Epiperipatus evansi (Bouvier, 1904)
- Epiperipatus hilkae Morera-Brenes and Monge-Najera, 1990
- Epiperipatus imthurni (Sclater, 1888)
- Epiperipatus isthmicola (Bouvier, 1902)
- Epiperipatus lewisi (Arnett, 1961)
- Epiperipatus machadoi (Oliveira & Wieloch, 2005)
- Epiperipatus ohausi (Bouvier, 1900)
- Epiperipatus paurognostus Oliveira et al., 2011
- Epiperipatus simoni (Bouvier, 1898)
- Epiperipatus torrealbai Scorza, 1953
- Epiperipatus trinidadensis (Sedgwick, 1888)
- Epiperipatus vagans (Brues, 1925)
- Epiperipatus vespucci Brues, 1914
Epiperipatus nicaraguensis (Bouvier, 1900) and Epiperipatus tucupi (Froehlich, 1968) are considered nomina dubia by Oliveira et al. 2012.
References
- ↑ Oliveira, Hering, & Mayer. "Updated Onychophora checklist". Onychophora Website. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Read, V. M. St. J. (July 1988). "The Onychophora of Trinidad, Tobago, and the Lesser Antilles". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 93 (3): 225–57. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1988.tb01362.x.
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