Heteroperipatus

Heteroperipatus
Scientific classification
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 & Mayer. "Updated Onychophora checklist". Onychophora Website. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
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 . PMC   3426840 . 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)" . Invertebrate Biology. 140 (3). doi:10.1111/ivb.12336. ISSN   1077-8306. S2CID   236359517.
4. Zilch, Adolf (1954). "Onychophoren aus El Salvador". Senckenbergiana Biologica (in German). 35: 147–150.
5. 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