Opisthopatus herbertorum

Opisthopatus herbertorum is a species of velvet worm in the Peripatopsidae family.[1] The type locality is in South Africa.[2] As originally described, this species is uniformly white with 17 pairs of legs.[3] Subsequent phylogenetic results, however, cast doubt on this species delimitation based on morphology, indicating instead that O. herbertorum is a junior synonym of O. roseus.[4][5]

Opisthopatus herbertorum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Onychophora
Family: Peripatopsidae
Genus: Opisthopatus
Species:
O. herbertorum
Binomial name
Opisthopatus herbertorum
Ruhberg & Hamer, 2005

References

  1. Oliveira, I.; Hering, L. & Mayer, G. "Updated Onychophora checklist". Onychophora Website. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  2. Oliveira, I. S.; Read, V. M. S. J.; Mayer, G. (2012). "A world checklist of Onychophora (velvet worms), with notes on nomenclature and status of names". ZooKeys (211): 1–70. doi:10.3897/zookeys.211.3463. PMC 3426840. PMID 22930648.
  3. Ruhberg, Hilke; Hamer, Michelle L. (2005). "A new species of Opisthopatus Purcell, 1899 (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae) from KwaZulu–Natal, South Africa". Zootaxa. 1039: 27–38. doi:10.5281/zenodo.169797 via ResearchGate.
  4. Daniels, Savel R.; Dambire, Charlene; Klaus, Sebastian; Sharma, Prashant P. (2016). "Unmasking alpha diversity, cladogenesis and biogeographical patterning in an ancient panarthropod lineage (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae: Opisthopatus cinctipes ) with the description of five novel species". Cladistics. 32 (5): 506–537. doi:10.1111/cla.12154. PMID 34727674. S2CID 49525550.
  5. "ITIS - Report: Opisthopatus roseus". www.itis.gov. Retrieved 2023-01-30.


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