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Plicatoperipatus jamaicensis (Grabham & Cockerell, 1892)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Peripatus jamaicensis Grabham & Cockerell, 1892

 

Conservation Status

Rediscovered (Grabham & Cockerell, 1892)

 

Distribution

Jamaica

 

Anatomy & Morphology

 

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

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References

Original scientific description:

Grabham, M. and Cockerell, T. D. A. (1892). Peripatus re-discovered in Jamaica. Nature, 46, 514. https://doi.org/10.1038/046514a0

 

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.

Clark, A. H. (1913). A revision of the American species of Peripatus. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 26: 15-19.

Cockerell, T. D. A. (1893). Notes on Peripatus jamaicensis, Grabh. and Ckll. Zoologischer Anzeiger 16: 341-343.

Cockerell, T. D. A. (1901). The Jamaican species of Peripatus. Nature 63: 325-326.

Groombridge, B. (ed.). (1994). 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

New, T. R. (1996). Plicatoperipatus jamaicensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T17716A7380464. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T17716A7380464.en. Accessed on 18 January 2023.

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.

 

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