''Epiperipatus paurognostus'' 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 brown with a series of light brown arcs on each side forming circles down its back.
Males of this species have 26 or 27 pairs of legs, usually 27; females have 27 to 29, usually 29.
The type locality is in
Minas Gerais, Brazil.
References
Onychophorans of tropical America
Onychophoran species
Animals described in 2011
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