Biology:Heteroperipatus

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Short description: Genus of velvet worms

Heteroperipatus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Onychophora
Family: Peripatidae
Genus: Heteroperipatus
Zilch, 1954
Species

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Heteroperipatus is a genus of Central American velvet worms in the Peripatidae family.[1][2] The number of legs in this genus varies within species as well as among species and ranges from 26 pairs (in H. clarki)[3] to 32 pairs (in H. engelhardi).[4] This genus is viviparous, with mothers supplying nourishment to their embryos through a placenta.[5]

Species

The genus contains the following two species:

  • Heteroperipatus clarki (Dunn, 1943)
  • Heteroperipatus engelhardi Zilch, 1954

References

  1. Oliveira; Hering. "Updated Onychophora checklist". http://www.onychophora.com/list.htm. 
  2. 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. PMID 22930648. 
  3. Costa, Cristiano Sampaio; Giribet, Gonzalo (2021). "Panamanian velvet worms in the genus Epiperipatus , with notes on their taxonomy and distribution and the description of a new species (Onychophora, Peripatidae)" (in en). Invertebrate Biology 140 (3). doi:10.1111/ivb.12336. ISSN 1077-8306. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ivb.12336. 
  4. Zilch, Adolf (1954). "Onychophoren aus El Salvador" (in German). Senckenbergiana Biologica 35: 147–150. 
  5. Mayer, Georg; Franke, Franziska Anni; Treffkorn, Sandra; Gross, Vladimir; de Sena Oliveira, Ivo (2015), Wanninger, Andreas, ed., "Onychophora" (in en), Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates 3 (Vienna: Springer Vienna): pp. 53–98, doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-1865-8_4, ISBN 978-3-7091-1864-1, http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-7091-1865-8_4, retrieved 2023-02-16 

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