Peripatopsidae | |
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Euperipatoides kanangrensis in Australia | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Onychophora |
Family: | Peripatopsidae Bouvier, 1905[1] |
Genera | |
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Global range of Onychophora Peripatopsidae extant Peripatidae fossils
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Peripatopsidae is one of the two living velvet worm families.[2] This family includes more than 140 described species distributed among 41 genera,[3] but some authorities deem only 131 of these species to be valid.[4] The French zoologist Eugène Louis Bouvier proposed this family in 1905 with Peripatopsis as the type genus.[4][5]
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