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Peripatidae  Audoin and H. Milne-Edwards, 1832
Taxonomic Serial No.: 1217462

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Family  
  Synonym(s): Peripatidae Evans, 1901
  
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  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2024   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumOnychophora Grube, 1850 – velvet worms, onychophorans  
                FamilyPeripatidae Audoin and H. Milne-Edwards, 1832  
    Direct Children:  
                   GenusCerradopatus Oliveira, Lacorte, Weck-Heimann, Cordeiro, Wieloch and Mayer, 2015  
                   GenusEoperipatus Evans, 1901  
                   GenusEpiperipatus Clark, 1913  
                   GenusHeteroperipatus Zilch, 1954  
                   GenusMacroperipatus Clark, 1913  
                   GenusMesoperipatus Evans, 1901  
                   GenusMongeperipatus Barquero-González et al., 2020  
                   GenusOroperipatus Cockerell, 1908  
                   GenusPeripatus Guilding, 1826  
                   GenusPlicatoperipatus Clark, 1913  
                   GenusPrincipapillatus Oliveira, Franke, Hering, Schaffer, Rowell, Weck-Heimann, Monge-Nájera, Morera-Brenes et al., 2012  
                   GenusSpeleoperipatus Peck, 1975  
                   GenusTyphloperipatus Kemp, 1913  
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Brusca, Richard C., and Gary J. Brusca   
  Publication Date: 2002   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Invertebrates, Second Edition   
  Page(s): xx + 936   
  Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Inc.   
  Publication Place: Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-87893-097-3   
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  Reference for: Peripatidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Brusca, Richard C., Wendy Moore, and Stephen M. Shuster   
  Publication Date: 2016   
  Article/Chapter Title: Chapter 20: The Emergence of the Arthropods. Tardigrades, Onychophorans, and the Arthropod Body Plan   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Invertebrates, Third Edition   
  Page(s): 709-760   
  Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Inc.   
  Publication Place: Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 978-1605353753   
  Notes: Chapter revised by guest contributors Gonzalo Giribet (Onychophora), Reinhardt M. Kristensen (Tardigrada) and Richard C. Brusca (Tardigrada)   
  Reference for: Peripatidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Giribet, Gonzalo, and Gregory D. Edgecombe   
  Publication Date: 2020   
  Article/Chapter Title: 30. Onychophora   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: The Invertebrate Tree of Life   
  Page(s): 224-230   
  Publisher: Princeton University Press   
  Publication Place: Princeton, New Jersey, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 9780691170251   
  Notes: doi: 10.1515/9780691197067-032   
  Reference for: Peripatidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Oliveira, Ivo de Sena   
  Publication Date: 2023   
  Article/Chapter Title: An updated world checklist of velvet worms (Onychophora) with notes on nomenclature and status of names   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: ZooKeys, vol. 1184   
  Page(s): 133-260   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1313-2970   
  Notes: doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1184.107286   
  Reference for: Peripatidae   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: As noted by Oliviera (2023:138), the name Peripatidae has been broadly but wrongly attributed to Evans (1901), it should be attributed to Audouin and H. Milne-Edwards (1832), instead  
 

 

    


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