Peripatus juliformis

Peripatus juliformis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Division: Onychophora
Class: Udeonychophora
Order: Euonychophora
Family: Peripatidae
Genus: Peripatus
Species: P. juliformis
Binomial name
Peripatus juliformis
Guilding, 1826

Peripatus juliformis is a species of velvet worm in the Peripatidae family.[1] The type locality is in Saint Vincent Island. This species became the first velvet worm known to science when Lansdown Guilding described it in 1826.[2]

References

  1. Oliveira I., Hering L., & Mayer, G. "Updated Onychophora checklist". Onychophora Website. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  2. 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.
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