Name - Peripatopsis capensis

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:126527 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Peripatopsis capensis Grube 1866

• Peripatopsis capensis (Grube 1866)

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Recent Publications

• Onychophora from mesic grassveld in South Africa (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae).
• Fertilization pattern and sperm tail structure.
• Relatively recent evolution of an unusual pattern of early embryonic development (long germ band?) in a South African onychophoran, Opisthopatus cinctipes Purcell (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae).
• Investigating onychophoran gas exchange and water balance as a means to inform current controversies in arthropod physiology.
• 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.

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