equatorial velvet worms
Peripatidae
Peripatidae is a family of velvet worms. The oldest putative representatives of the family herald from Burmese amber dated to the mid-Cretaceous, around 100 Ma, with representatives from Dominican and Baltic amber attesting to a broader distribution in the Palaeogene / Neogene; molecular variability suggests that the family's crown group may have arisen in the early Mesozoic.
12 branches of this family, most-observed first
Oroperipatus
genusOroperipatus
Macroperipatus
genusMacroperipatus
Eoperipatus
genusEoperipatus
Peripatus
genusPeripatus
Epiperipatus
genusEpiperipatus
Plicatoperipatus
genusPlicatoperipatus
Mongeperipatus
genusMongeperipatus
Speleoperipatus
genusSpeleoperipatus
Mesoperipatus
genusMesoperipatus
Heteroperipatus
genusHeteroperipatus
Principapillatus
genusPrincipapillatus
Cerradopatus
genusCerradopatus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 85980.