''Oroperipatus'' is a genus of
Neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In bioge ...
velvet worm
Onychophora (from grc, ονυχής, , "claws"; and , , "to carry"), commonly known as velvet worms (due to their velvety texture and somewhat wormlike appearance) or more ambiguously as peripatus (after the first described genus, '' Peripatus ...
s in the family
Peripatidae
Peripatidae is a family of velvet worms. The oldest putative representatives of the family herald from Burmese amber dated to the mid-Cretaceous, around 100 Ma, with representatives from Dominican and Baltic amber attesting to a broader distribu ...
.
Species
The genus contains the following species:
* ''
Oroperipatus balzani''
(Camerano, 1897)
* ''
Oroperipatus belli''
(Bouvier, 1904)
* ''
Oroperipatus bimbergi''
(Fuhrmann, 1913)
* ''
Oroperipatus bluntschli''
Fuhrmann, 1915
* ''
Oroperipatus cameranoi''
(Bouvier, 1899)
* ''
Oroperipatus corradoi''
(Camerano, 1898)
* ''
Oroperipatus ecuadorensis''
(Bouvier, 1902)
* ''
Oroperipatus eisenii''
(Wheeler, 1898)
* ''
Oroperipatus intermedius''
(Bouvier, 1901)
* ''
Oroperipatus koepckei''
Zilch, 1954
* ''
Oroperipatus lankesteri''
(Bouvier, 1899)
* ''
Oroperipatus multipodes''
(Fuhrmann, 1913)
* ''
Oroperipatus omeyrus''
Marcus, 1952
* ''
Oroperipatus peruvianus''
Brues, 1917
* ''
Oroperipatus soratanus''
(Bouvier, 1901)
* ''
Oroperipatus tuberculatus''
(Bouvier, 1898)
* ''
Oroperipatus weyrauchi''
Marcus, 1952
''Oroperipatus goudoti''
(Bouvier, 1899), ''Oroperipatus quitensis''
(Schmarda, 1871), and ''Oroperipatus peruanus''
(Grube, 1876) are considered ''
nomina dubia
In binomial nomenclature, a ''nomen dubium'' (Latin for "doubtful name", plural ''nomina dubia'') is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application.
Zoology
In case of a ''nomen dubium'' it may be impossible to determine whether a s ...
'' by Oliveira ''et al''. 2012.
References
Onychophorans of tropical America
Onychophoran genera
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