• Source: Epiperipatus

Epiperipatus is the most diverse genus of neotropical velvet worms in the family Peripatidae. Species in this genus are found in Central and South America. This genus is viviparous, with mothers supplying nourishment to their embryos through a placenta.




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) or as many as 39 leg pairs (in E. titanicus).




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 by Oliveira et al. 2012.




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Onychophora
• Peripatidae
• Epiperipatus
• Epiperipatus marajoara
• Epiperipatus ohausi
• Epiperipatus bernali
• Epiperipatus beckeri
• Epiperipatus adenocryptus
• Epiperipatus paurognostus
• Epiperipatus evansi
• Epiperipatus simoni
• Epiperipatus trinidadensis