''Epiperipatus hilkae'' is a species of
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 ...
in the
Peripatidae family
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.
This species is dark brown with a series of reddish brown hexagons down its back.
Males of this species have 25 to 27 pairs of legs; females have 28 to 29.
The type locality is in
Costa Rica.
References
Onychophorans of tropical America
Onychophoran species
Animals described in 1990
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