Peripatopsidae
Sign in to savePeripatopsidae or the Southern Velvet Worms are one of two extant families of velvet worm. This family includes more than 140 described species distributed among 41 genera, but some authorities deem only 131 of these species to be valid. The French zoologist Eugène Louis Bouvier proposed this family in 1905 with Peripatopsis as the type genus.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 133
- Family
- Peripatopsidae
- Collections
- NMV, QM, AM
- Recorded in
- Australia, Papua New Guinea
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- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Onychophora
- Image
- Velvet worm (2002).jpg
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- Peripatopsidae
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- family
- taxon name
- Peripatopsidae
- taxonomic type
- Peripatopsis
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- Category:Peripatopsidae
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Peripatopsidae or the Southern Velvet Worms are one of two extant families of velvet worm. This family includes more than 140 described species distributed among 41 genera, but some authorities deem only 131 of these species to be valid. The French zoologist Eugène Louis Bouvier proposed this family in 1905 with Peripatopsis as the type genus.
== Description ==
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