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
Media
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.