Oroperipatus is a genus of Neotropical velvet worms in the family Peripatidae.[1][2] Species in this genus are found in South America west of the Andes and in Mexico.[3] This genus is viviparous, with mothers supplying nourishment to their embryos through a placenta.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Onychophora |
| Family: | Peripatidae |
| Genus: | Oroperipatus Cockerell, 1908 |
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Description
editVelvet worms in this genus can have as few as 22 pairs of legs (in O. omeyrus) or as many as 40 leg pairs (in O. bluntschli, O. weyrauchi, and O. tiputini).[5][6] Species in this genus have from four to seven distal foot papillae, with two or more on the anterior part of the foot and two or more on the posterior part of the foot.[7] This genus also features a nephridial tubercle on the fourth and fifth leg pairs inserted into a complete third spinous pad.[6]
Species
editThe genus contains the following species:
- Oroperipatus balzani (Camerano, 1897)
- Oroperipatus belli (Bouvier, 1904)
- Oroperipatus bimbergi (Fuhrmann, 1913)
- Oroperipatus bluntschli Fuhrmann, 1915
- Oroperipatus cameranoi (Bouvier, 1899)
- Oroperipatus corradoi (Camerano, 1898)
- Oroperipatus ecuadorensis (Bouvier, 1902)
- Oroperipatus eisenii (Wheeler, 1898)
- Oroperipatus intermedius (Bouvier, 1901)
- Oroperipatus koepckei Zilch, 1954
- Oroperipatus lankesteri (Bouvier, 1899)
- Oroperipatus multipodes (Fuhrmann, 1913)
- Oroperipatus omeyrus Marcus, 1952
- Oroperipatus peruvianus Brues, 1917
- Oroperipatus soratanus (Bouvier, 1901)
- Oroperipatus tiputini Montalvo-Salazar et al., 2024
- Oroperipatus tuberculatus (Bouvier, 1898)
- Oroperipatus weyrauchi Marcus, 1952
Oroperipatus goudoti (Bouvier, 1899), Oroperipatus quitensis (Schmarda, 1871), and Oroperipatus peruanus (Grube, 1876) are considered nomina dubia by Oliveira et al. 2012.
References
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- ^ Oliveira; Hering & Mayer. "Updated Onychophora checklist". Onychophora Website. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
- ^ Oliveira, I. S.; Read, V. M. S. J.; Mayer, G. (2012). "A world checklist of Onychophora (velvet worms), with notes on nomenclature and status of names". ZooKeys (211): 1–70. Bibcode:2012ZooK..211....1O. doi:10.3897/zookeys.211.3463. PMC 3426840. PMID 22930648.
- ^ Baker, Caitlin (2021). "Phylogenomic analysis of Velvet Worms (Onychophora) uncovers an evolutionary radiation in the Neotropics". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38 (12): 5391–5404. doi:10.1093/molbev/msab251. PMC 8662635. PMID 34427671. Retrieved 2022-10-28.
- ^ Mayer, Georg; Franke, Franziska Anni; Treffkorn, Sandra; Gross, Vladimir; de Sena Oliveira, Ivo (2015), Wanninger, Andreas (ed.), "Onychophora", Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates 3, Vienna: Springer Vienna, pp. 53–98, doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-1865-8_4, ISBN 978-3-7091-1864-1, retrieved 2023-02-16
- ^ du Bois-Reymond Marcus, Eveline (1952-12-23). "On South American Malacopoda". Boletins da Faculdade de Philosophia, Sciencias e Letras, Universidade de São Paulo. Zoologia. 17 (17): 189–209. doi:10.11606/issn.2526-4877.bsffclzoologia.1952.125190. ISSN 2526-4877.
- ^ a b Montalvo-Salazar, Jorge L.; Bejarano, M. Lorena; Valarezo, Alfredo; Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F. (2024-06-14). "A new species of velvet worm of the genus Oroperipatus (Onychophora, Peripatidae) from western Amazonia". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 100 (3): 779–789. doi:10.3897/zse.100.117952. ISSN 1860-0743.
- ^ Oliveira, Ivo de Sena; Franke, Franziska Anni; Hering, Lars; Schaffer, Stefan; Rowell, David M.; Weck-Heimann, Andreas; Monge-Nájera, Julián; Morera-Brenes, Bernal; Mayer, Georg (2012-12-17). "Unexplored Character Diversity in Onychophora (Velvet Worms): A Comparative Study of Three Peripatid Species". PLOS ONE. 7 (12): e51220. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...751220O. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051220. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3524137. PMID 23284667.
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