Epiperipatus betheli
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''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 ...
. 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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Onychophorans of tropical America Onychophoran species Animals described in 1913 {{Onychophora-stub