Epiperipatus barbouri
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''Epiperipatus barbouri'' is a species of velvet worm in the
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 ...
family. This species is a dark purple, almost black, without any pattern on its dorsal surface. Females of this species have 30 to 34 pairs of legs. The type locality is in
Grenada Grenada ( ; Grenadian Creole French: ) is an island country in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain. Grenada consists of the island of Grenada itself, two smaller islands, Carriacou and Pe ...
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Onychophorans of tropical America Onychophoran species Animals described in 1911 {{Onychophora-stub