''Peripatus heloisae'' 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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.
Females of this species have 31 to 34 pairs of legs; males have 28 to 32. The type locality is in
Mato Grosso, Brazil.
References
Onychophorans of tropical America
Onychophoran species
Animals described in 1941
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