Plicatoperipatus is a monospecific genus of velvet worm containing the single species Plicatoperipatus jamaicensis.[2] It is endemic to Jamaica. Females of this species can have as many as 43 pairs of legs, the maximum number found in the phylum Onychophora.[3][4] In a large sample collected in 1988, however, females ranged from 35 to 39 leg pairs, with 37 as the mean and the most common number, and males ranged from 31 to 37 leg pairs, with 35 as the mean and the most common number.[5][6] This species ranges from 25 mm to 65 mm in length.[5] In the 1988 sample, the mean length for males was 33 mm, and the mean length for mature females was 51 mm.[6] This species is viviparous, with mothers supplying nourishment to their embryos through a placenta.[7]
| Plicatoperipatus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Onychophora |
| Family: | Peripatidae |
| Genus: | Plicatoperipatus Clark, 1913 |
| Species: | P. jamaicensis
|
| Binomial name | |
| Plicatoperipatus jamaicensis (Grabham & Cockerell, 1892)
| |
Conservation
editThis species is listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN Red List.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b New, T.R. (1996). "Plicatoperipatus jamaicensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T17716A7380464. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T17716A7380464.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ 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. Bibcode:2012ZooK..211....1O. doi:10.3897/zookeys.211.3463. PMC 3426840. PMID 22930648.
- ^ Bouvier, E.-L. (1905). "Monographie des Onychophores". Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie (in French). 9 (2): 1–383 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ Yang, Jie; Ortega-Hernández, Javier; Gerber, Sylvain; Butterfield, Nicholas J.; Hou, Jin-bo; Lan, Tian; Zhang, Xi-guang (2015-07-14). "A superarmored lobopodian from the Cambrian of China and early disparity in the evolution of Onychophora". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (28): 8678–8683. Bibcode:2015PNAS..112.8678Y. doi:10.1073/pnas.1505596112. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 4507230. PMID 26124122 – via ResearchGate.
- ^ a b Monge-Nájera, Julián (1994). "Reproductive trends, habitat type and body characteristcs in velvet worms (Onychophora)". Revista de Biología Tropical. 42 (3): 611–622. ISSN 2215-2075.
- ^ a b Havel, John E.; Wilson, Chris C.; Hebert, Paul D. N. (1989). "Parental Investment and Sex Allocation in a Viviparous Onychophoran". Oikos. 56 (2): 224–232. Bibcode:1989Oikos..56..224H. doi:10.2307/3565340. ISSN 0030-1299. JSTOR 3565340.
- ^ 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
Further reading
edit- Herbert, P. D. N.; Billington, N.; Finston, T. L.; Boileau, M. G.; Beaton, M. J.; Barette, R. J. (1991). "Genetic-variation in the Onychophoran Plicatoperipatus-jamaicIensis". Heredity. 67 (2): 221–229. doi:10.1038/hdy.1991.83.
- Oliveira, I. D.; Luter, C.; Wolf, K. W.; Mayer, G. (2014). "Evolutionary changes in the integument of the onychophoran Plicatoperipatus jamaicensis (Peripatidae)". Invertebrate Biology. 113 (3): 274–280. doi:10.1111/ivb.12063.
 | This velvet worm-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |