Epiperipatus isthmicola (Bouvier, 1902)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Peripatus nicaraguensis isthmicola (Bouvier 1902); Peripatus (Epiperipatus) isthmicola (Clark 1913)
Conservation Status
Last (and only) record: July 1900 (Barquero-González et al., 2016)
Rediscovered on: 2 August 2004 (Barquero-González et al., 2016 [reports record]; Morera-Brenes et al., 2019 [reports rediscovery])
Distribution
Costa Rica
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
Whitington and Mayer (2011), Hering et al. (2012), Haug, Mayer, Haug, and Briggs, D. (2012) and Baer and Mayer (2012).
References
Original scientific description:
Bouvier, E. L. (1902). Un péripate de Costa Rica. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France [1902]: 239-240.
Other references:
Baer, A. and Mayer, G. (2012). Comparative anatomy of slime glands in Onychophora (velvet worms). Journal of Morphology 273(10): 1079-1088.
Bouvier, E. L. (1905). Monographie des Onychophores. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie et Biologie Animale [9e Série] 2: 1-383.
Bouvier, E. L. (1907). Catalogue des Onychophores des Collections du Muséum d’Historie Naturelle de Paris. Bulletin du Museum National d’Historie Naturelle 13: 518-521.
Barquero-González, J. P., Alvarado, C., Alonso, A., Valle-Cubero, S., Monge-Nájera, J. and Morera-Brenes, B. (2016). The geographic distribution of Costa Rican velvet worms (Onychophora: Peripatidae). Revista de Biología Tropical 64(4): 1401-1414.
Clark, A. H. (1913). A revision of the American species of Peripatus. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 26: 15-20.
Haug, J. T., Mayer, G., Haug, C. and Briggs, D. E. (2012). A Carboniferous non-onychophoran lobopodian reveals long-term survival of a Cambrian morphotype. Current Biology 22(18): 1673-1675.
Hering, L., Henze, M. J., Kohler, M., Kelber, A., Bleidorn, C., Leschke, M. and Mayer, G. (2012). Opsins in Onychophora (velvet worms) suggest a single origin and subsequent diversification of visual pigments in arthropods. Molecular Biology and Evolution 29(11): 3451-3458.
Mayer, G., Kato, C., Quast, B., Chisholm, R. H., Landman, K. A. and Quinn, L. M. (2010a). Growth patterns in Onychophora (velvet worms): lack of a localised posterior proliferation zone. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10(1): 339.
Mayer, G. and Tait, N. N. (2009). Position and development of oocytes in velvet worms shed light on the evolution of the ovary in Onychophora and Arthropoda. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157(1): 17-33.
Mayer, G. and Whitington, P. M. (2009a.) Velvet worm development links myriapods with chelicerates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276: 3571-3579.
Mayer, G. and Whitington, P. M. (2009b). Neural development in Onychophora (velvet worms) suggests a step-wise evolution of segmentation in the nervous system of Panarthropoda. Developmental Biology 335(1): 263-275.
Mayer, Georg, Whitington, P. M., Sunnucks, P. and Pflüger, H. J. (2010). A revision of brain composition in Onychophora (velvet worms) suggests that the tritocerebrum evolved in arthropods. BMC Evol Biol. 10: 255. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186%2F1471-2148-10-255
Monge-Nájera, Julián. (1994). Reproductive trends, habitat type and body characteristcs in velvet worms (Onychophora). Revista de Biología Tropical 42(3): 611-622.
Monge-Nájera, Julián and Morera-Brene, B. (1994). Morphological and physiological characteristics of two species of Epiperipatus from Costa Rica (Onychophora: Peripatidae). Revista de Biología Tropical 42: 181.
Morera-Brenes, Bernal, Monge-Nájera, Julián and Mora, Paola Carrera. (2019). The conservation status of Costa Rican velvet worms (Onychophora): geographic pattern, risk assessment and comparison with New Zealand velvet worms. UNED Research Journal / Cuadernos de Investigación UNED 11(3): 2262. https://doi.org/10.22458/urj.v11i3.2262
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
Peck, S. B. (1975). A review of the New World Onychophora with the description of a new cavernicolous genus and species from Jamaica. Psyche 82: 341-358.
Whitington, P. M. and Mayer, G. (2011). The origins of the arthropod nervous system--insights from the Onychophora. Arthropod Structure & Development 40(3): 193-209. [NB: the double hyphen in the title is supposed to be a colon, but it gives me a 403 error so I have to render the colon as a hyphen]
Young, A. M. (1980). On the patchy distribution of onychophorans in two cocoa plantations in northeastern Costa Rica. Brenesia 17: 43-48.
Young, A. M. (1982). Can a population sample equal one and have patchy distribution? Brenesia 19-20: 613-614.