''Epiperipatus betheli'' is a species of
velvet worm 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 ...
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The original description of this species is based on a dark brown female specimen, 34 mm long, with 30 pairs of legs. The type locality is in
Guatemala
Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by H ...
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References
Onychophorans of tropical America
Onychophoran species
Animals described in 1913
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