Peripatopsis sedgwicki | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Onychophora |
Family: | Peripatopsidae |
Genus: | Peripatopsis |
Species: | P. sedgwicki
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Binomial name | |
Peripatopsis sedgwicki Purcell, 1899
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Peripatopsis sedgwicki is a species of velvet worm in the Peripatopsidae family.[1][2][3] Also known as the Tsitsikamma velvet worm,[4] this species has a narrow geographic distribution in South Africa but is especially abundant in the indigenous forest of the Tsitsikamma mountains.[5][6] Recent phylogenetic analysis finds that Peripatopsis sedgwicki as traditionally understood (sensu lato) is a species complex that contains four clades, each representing a different species: P. sedgwicki s.s. (sensu stricto, that is, as more narrowly defined), P. orientalis, P. collarium, and P. margaritarius.[7]
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