Peripatopsis leonina Purcell, 1899:344
Lion's Hill velvet worm
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1900 (Hamer, 2003a,b); 1904 (van Noort & Ranwashe, 2020)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
The IUCN listed the species as extinct in 1996 (Baillie & Groombridge, 1996), but re-assessed it in 2003 as Critically Endangered (CR) because the lack of specimens does not necessarily mean that the species is extinct, due to the often cryptic nature of velvet worms. Moreover, specimens of an unknown species of velvet worm have also been seen but not collected at the type locality (Hamer, 2003a,b).
Distribution
Lion's Hill (= Signal Hill), Western Cape Province, South Africa
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
IZIKO South Africa Museum Collection (1800-2013):
The Myriapoda & Onychophora collection (MY) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris):
MNHN-MY-MY39 (female) [syntype]
MNHN-MY-MY42 (1 male; 1 female)
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University:
Media
References
Original scientific description:
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.
Other references:
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. pp. 378. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Bouvier, E.-L. (1905). Monographie des Onychophores. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie 2: 1-383. [p. 121-122]
Groombridge, B. (ed.). (1994). 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Hamer, M. L. (2003a). Peripatopsis leonina. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 12 December 2010.
Hamer, M. L. (2003b). Peripatopsis leonina. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2003: e.T16620A6189763. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2003.RLTS.T16620A6189763.en. Accessed on 14 May 2023.
Hamer, M. L., Samways, M. J. and Ruhberg, H. (1997). A review of the Onychophora of South Africa, with discussion of their conservation. Annals of the Natal Museum 38(1): 283-312.
Manton, S. (1938). Studies on the Onychophora VI. The life history of Peripatopsis. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11: 515-529.
Mauriès J, Chagnoux S (2022). The Myriapoda & Onychophora collection (MY) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris). Version 74.256. MNHN - Museum national d'Histoire naturelle. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/eq1kml accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-04-03. https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1019538525
Monge-Nájera, Julián (1994). Reproductive trends, habitat type and body characteristcs in velvet worms (Onychophora). Revista de Biología Tropical 42(3): 611-622.
Oliveira, I. S., Read, V. M. S. J. and Mayer, G. (2012). A world checklist of Onychophora (velvet worms), with notes on nomenclature and status of names. ZooKeys 211: 1-70. https://doi.org/10.3897%2Fzookeys.211.3463
Ruhberg, Hike. (1985). Die Peripatopsidae (Onychophora). Systematik, Okologie, Chorologie und phylogenetische Aspekte in Schaller F (Ed). Zoologica (Stuttgart) 137: .
van Noort D S, Ranwashe F (2020). IZIKO South Africa Museum Collection (1800-2013). Version 1.4. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/vf3ko1 accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-04-03. https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1224579455