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Genus of velvet worms
Macroperipatus is a genus of
Neotropical
velvet worms in the
Peripatidae family.
[1] Velvet worms in this genus can have as few as 24 pairs of legs (in
M. guianensis)
[2] or as many as 42 leg pairs (in
M. torquatus).
[3] This genus is
viviparous, with mothers supplying nourishment to their embryos through a placenta.
[4]
Species
The genus contains the following species:
[5]
Macroperipatus geayi (Bouvier, 1899) is considered a
nomen dubium by Oliveira et al. 2012.
References
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^ 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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^ Monge-Nájera, Julián (1994).
"Reproductive trends, habitat type and body characteristcs in velvet worms (Onychophora)". Revista de Biología Tropical: 611–622.
ISSN
2215-2075.
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^ Read, V.M.S.J. (1988-07-01).
"The Onychophora of Trinidad, Tobago and the Lesser Antilles". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 93 (3): 225–257.
doi:
10.1111/j.1096-3642.1988.tb01362.x.
ISSN
0024-4082.
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^ Mayer, Georg; Franke, Franziska Anni; Treffkorn, Sandra; Gross, Vladimir; de Sena Oliveira, Ivo (2015), Wanninger, Andreas (ed.),
"Onychophora", 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, retrieved 2023-02-16
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^ Oliveira; et al. (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.