Epiperipatus
Genus of velvet worms
Epiperipatus neotropical velvet worms in the family Peripatidae .[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] Central and South America .[ 3] viviparous , with mothers supplying nourishment to their embryos through a placenta.[ 4]
Description
Several traits are considered diagnostic for this genus. These traits include the number of scale ranks (four to eighteen) on the basal piece of the primary papillae, four complete spinous pads of the soles of the feet of the fourth and fifth pairs of legs, sometimes with vestiges of a fifth pad, a nephridial tubercle on the fourth and fifth leg pairs, located between the third and fourth spinous pads, and in males, one to three pairs of pregenital legs with crural papillae. Velvet worms in this genus can have as few as 23 leg pairs (in E. hyperbolicus E. titanicus [ 3]
Species
The genus contains the following species:
Epiperipatus acacioi (Marcus & Marcus, 1955) Epiperipatus adenocryptus Oliveira et al., 2011 Epiperipatus barbadensis (Froehlich, 1962) Epiperipatus barbouri (Brues, 1911) Epiperipatus beckeri Costa, Chagas & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2018 Epiperipatus bernali Costa & Giribet, 2021 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 hyperbolicus Costa, Chagas & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2018 Epiperipatus imthurni (Sclater, 1888) Epiperipatus isthmicola (Bouvier, 1902) Epiperipatus lewisi (Arnett, 1961) Epiperipatus lucerna Costa, Chagas & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2018 Epiperipatus machadoi (Oliveira & Wieloch, 2005) Epiperipatus marajoara Costa, Chagas & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2018 Epiperipatus ohausi (Bouvier, 1900) Epiperipatus paurognostus Oliveira et al., 2011 Epiperipatus puri Costa, Mendes & de Leão Giupponi, 2023 Epiperipatus simoni (Bouvier, 1898) Epiperipatus titanicus Costa, Chagas & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2018 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
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 PMC 3426840 PMID 22930648 . ^ a b c Costa, Cristiano Sampaio; Chagas-Junior, Amazonas; Pinto-da-Rocha, Ricardo (2018-10-16). "Redescription of Epiperipatus edwardsii, and descriptions of five new species of Epiperipatus from Brazil (Onychophora: Peripatidae)" . Zoologia . 35 : 1–15 [1–2, 12]. doi :10.3897/zoologia.35.e23366 ISSN 1984-4689 . S2CID 92601575 . ^ 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
