Heteroperipatus is a genus of Central American velvet worms in the Peripatidae family.[1][2] The number of legs in this genus varies within species as well as among species and ranges from 26 pairs (in H. clarki)[3] to 32 pairs (in H. engelhardi).[4] This genus is viviparous, with mothers supplying nourishment to their embryos through a placenta.[5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Onychophora |
| Family: | Peripatidae |
| Genus: | Heteroperipatus Zilch, 1954 |
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Species
editThe genus contains the following two species:
- Heteroperipatus clarki (Dunn, 1943)
- Heteroperipatus engelhardi Zilch, 1954
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Costa, Cristiano Sampaio; Giribet, Gonzalo (2021). "Panamanian velvet worms in the genus Epiperipatus , with notes on their taxonomy and distribution and the description of a new species (Onychophora, Peripatidae)". Invertebrate Biology. 140 (3). doi:10.1111/ivb.12336. ISSN 1077-8306. S2CID 236359517.
- ^ Zilch, Adolf (1954). "Onychophoren aus El Salvador". Senckenbergiana Biologica (in German). 35: 147–150.
- ^ 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
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