Epiperipatus vagans

Epiperipatus vagans
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Onychophora
Family:	Peripatidae
Genus:	Epiperipatus
Species:	E. vagans
Binomial name
Epiperipatus vagans (Brues, 1925)
Synonyms
Peripatus (Epiperipatus) brasiliensis var. vagans(Brues 1925) Epiperipatus brasiliensis vagans(Peck 1975)

Epiperipatus vagans is a species of velvet worm in the Peripatidae family. ^[1] The male of this species has 29 or 30 pairs of legs; females have 32 or 33. ^[2] The type locality is in Panama. ^{[3] [4]}

References

1. Oliveira I.; Hering L. & Mayer, G. "Updated Onychophora checklist". Onychophora Website. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
2. 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)" . Invertebrate Biology. 140 (3). doi:10.1111/ivb.12336. ISSN   1077-8306. S2CID   236359517.
3. Brues, Carles T. (1925). "Notes on Neotropical Onycophora". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 32 (3): 159–165. doi: 10.1155/1925/79079 . ISSN   0033-2615.
4. 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.