Peripatopsis balfouri (Sedgwick, 1885)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Onychophora
- family
- Peripatopsidae
- genus
- Peripatopsis
- species
- Peripatopsis balfouri
Name
- Synonyms
- Peripatopsis stelliporata Sherbon & Walker, 2004
- Peripatus balfouri Sedgwick, 1885
- Homonyms
- Peripatopsis balfouri (Sedgwick, 1885)
- Common names
- Blue velvet worm in English
- Southern blue velvet worm in English
Bibliographic References
- Bouvier, E. -L., 1907: Monographie des Onychophores. Annales des Sciences Naturelles Zoologie, 9th Series, vol. 5, no. 1-5. 61-318.
- Daniels, Savel R., Dane E. McDonald, and Mike D. Picker, 2013: Evolutionary insight into the Peripatopsis balfouri sensu lato species complex (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae) reveals novel lineages and zoogeographic patterning. Zoologica Scripta, vol. 42, no. 6. 656-674.
- Hamer, M. L., M. J. Samways, and H. Ruhberg, 1997: A review of the Onychophora of South Africa, with discussion of their conservation. Annales of the Natal Museum, vol. 38. 283-312.
- Oliveira, Ivo de Sena, 2023: An updated world checklist of velvet worms (Onychophora) with notes on nomenclature and status of names. ZooKeys, vol. 1184. 133-260.
- Oliveira, Ivo de Sena, V. Morley St. J. Read, and Georg Mayer, 2012: A world checklist of Onychophora (velvet worms), with notes on nomenclature and status of names. ZooKeys, vol. 211. 1-70.
- Ruhberg, Hilke, 1985: Die Peripatopsidae (Onychophora) Systematik, Ökologie, Chorologie und phylogenetische Aspekte. Zoologica, vol. 46, no. 137. vi+183.
- Sherbon, Beverley J., and Muriel H. Walker, 2004: A new species of Peripatopsis from South Africa, P. stelliporata, with observations on embryonic development and sperm degradation (Onychophora, Peripatopsidae). Journal of Zoology, vol. 264, no. 4. 295-305.