Epiperipatus is a genus of neotropical velvet worms in the family Peripatidae.[1][2]
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| Epiperipatus biolleyi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Onychophora |
| Class: | Udeonychophora |
| Order: | Euonychophora |
| Family: | Peripatidae |
| Genus: | Epiperipatus Clark, 1913 |
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SpeciesEdit
The genus contains the following thirty 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 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.
ReferencesEdit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Epiperipatus.
- ^ 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.
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