Peripatus dominicae

Peripatus dominicae is a species of velvet worm in the Peripatidae family.[1] Males of this species have 25 pairs of legs; females can have 28 to 31 pairs of legs,[2][3] but usually have 29.[4][5] Females in this species range in size from 29 mm to 56 mm in length, while males range from 17 mm to 25 mm in length.[2][3] The original description of preserved specimens report that this species is usually reddish brown with a diffuse darker streak down the middle of the back, with a much paler "light grey or greyish yellow" ventral surface.[4] Like other neotropical peripatid velvet worms, this species is viviparous, with mothers supplying nourishment to their embryos through a placenta.[6] The type locality is in Dominica.[7]

Peripatus dominicae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Onychophora
Family: Peripatidae
Genus: Peripatus
Species:
P. dominicae
Binomial name
Peripatus dominicae
Pollard, 1894
Synonyms
  • Peripatus dominicae Pollard, 1894
  • Peripatus dominicae dominicae Peck 1975

References
  1. Oliveira, I.; Hering, L. & Mayer, G. "Updated Onychophora checklist". Onychophora Website. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  2. Bouvier, E.-L. (1905). "Monographie des Onychophores". Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie (in French). 9 (2): 1–383 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  3. Monge-Nájera, Julián (1994). "Reproductive trends, habitat type and body characteristcs in velvet worms (Onychophora)". Revista de Biología Tropical: 611–622. ISSN 2215-2075.
  4. Pollard, E.C. (1893). "Notes on the Peripatus of Dominica". Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. 35: 285–293 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  5. Read, V. M. St. J. (July 1988). "The Onychophora of Trinidad, Tobago, and the Lesser Antilles". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 93 (3): 225–57. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1988.tb01362.x.
  6. 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
  7. 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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