Peripatopsis capensis
Peripatopsis capensis is a species of velvet worm in the Peripatopsidae family.[1] This species has 18 pairs of legs: 17 pregenital leg pairs with claws plus one last pair that is strongly reduced and without claws or spinous pads.[2][3] The native range of this species is limited to the Cape Peninsula of South Africa.[2][4]
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Introduced distribution
Outside of its native range in South Africa, this species has also been found on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos Islands, thought to be an accidental human-mediated introduction. Santa Cruz Island also has one or more native species of velvet worms in the family Peripatidae, thus making this island the sole location in the world where both extant velvet worm families are known to co-occur in the wild.[5]
References
- Oliveira, I. S.; Hering, L. & Mayer, G. "Updated Onychophora checklist". Onychophora Website. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
- McDonald, Dane E.; Ruhberg, Hilke; Daniels, Savel R. (2012-07-05). "Two new Peripatopsis species (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae) from the Western Cape province, South Africa". Zootaxa. 3380 (1): 55–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3380.1.4. ISSN 1175-5334 – via ResearchGate.
- Purcell, W.F. (1899). "On the South African species of Peripatidae in the collection of the South African Museum". Annals of the South African Museum. 1: 331–351 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- 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. doi:10.3897/zookeys.211.3463. PMC 3426840. PMID 22930648.
- Espinasa, Luis; Garvey, Radha; Espinasa, Jordi; Fratto, Christina; Taylor, Steven; Toulkeridis, Theofilos; Addison, Aaron (2015-01-21). "Cave dwelling Onychophora from a Lava Tube in the Galapagos Cave dwelling Onychophora from a Lava Tube in the Galapagos". Subterranean Biology. 15: 1–10. doi:10.3897/subtbiol.15.8468.
Further reading
- Camatini, M.; Franci, E.; Saita, A. (1979). "Ultrastructural investigation of spermiogenesis in Peripatopsis-capensis (Onychophora)". Journal of Morphology. 159 (1): 29–47. doi:10.1002/jmor.1051590104. PMID 30213150. S2CID 52269962.
- McDonald, D. E.; Daniels, S. R. (2012). "Phylogeography of the Cape velvet worm (Onychophora: Peripatopsis capensis) reveals the impact of Pliocene/Pleistocene climatic oscillations on Afromontane forest in the Western Cape, South Africa". Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 25 (5): 824–835. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02482.x. PMID 22409213.
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