pe·rip·a·tus

(pə-rĭp′ə-təs)

[New Latin Peripatus, genus name, from Greek peripatos, walking about, from peripatein, to walk about; see peripatetic.]

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peripatus

(pəˈrɪpətəs)

(Animals) any of a genus of wormlike arthropods having a segmented body and short unjointed limbs: belonging to the phylum Onychophora

[from New Latin, from Greek peripatos a pacing about; see peripatetic]

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Noun

peripatus - any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms

onychophoran, velvet worm

arthropod - invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin

class Onychophora, Onychophora - enigmatic small elongated wormlike terrestrial invertebrates of damp dark habitats in warm regions; distinct from the phylum Annelida; resemble slugs with legs and are sometimes described as the missing link between arthropods and annelids

Plicatoperipatus jamaicensis - a kind of onychophoran

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Nota previa sobre uma nova especie de "Peripatus" do Brasil Central.

The riddle of peripatus. Australian Natural History, vol.

The relationship between humidity, light and the activity pattern of a velvet worm, Epiperipatus sp

Velvet worms, also known as "peripatus", or onychophorans, are "living fossils" that have been documented as fossils since their Cambrian origin in China and Canada (Monge-Najera & Hou, 1999).

The currently known species are Epiperipatus isthmicola (Bouvier 1902a); Epiperipatus biolleyi (Bouvier 1902b); Peripatus ruber Fuhrmann (1913); Macroperipatus valerioi Morera-Brenes & Leon (1986); Epiperipatus hilkae Morera-Brenes & Monge-Najera (1990); Peripatus solorzanoi Morera-Brenes & Monge-Najera (2010) and Principapillatus hitoyensis Oliveira, et al.

The geographic distribution of Costa Rican velvet worms (Onychophora: peripatidae)

Here we present a chance encounter of an individual of Peripatus sp.

Lo-Man-Hung) noted an onychophoran (Peripatus sp.) feeding on a spider (H.

First record of an onychophoran (Onychophora, Peripatidae) feeding on a theraphosid spider (Araneae, Theraphosidae)

Muscle fibers in the onycophoran Peripatus dominicae are not subdivided into myofibrils, although the fiber is populated with many tubule systems, including sarcoplasmic reticulum and t-tubules (Hoyle and Williams, 1980).

Muscle and nerve terminal fine structure of a primitive crustacean, the cephalocarid Hutchinsoniella macracantha

Here we describe the uncommonly sized Peripatus solorzanoi sp.

The Caribbean Peripatidae species Peripatus and Epiperipatus are close to each other in a node.

A new giant species of placented worm and the mechanism by which onychophorans weave their nets

Peck (1975) recopilo de las familias del filo el listado de especies y generos de los onicoforos del nuevo mundo, al igual que las areas de distribucion en donde fueron reportadas por primera vez; de la familia Peripatidae fueron reportados para Colombia cuatro generos: Epiperipatus, Macroperipatus, Oroperipatus y Peripatus, y de estos cuatro generos, diez especies con distribucion en los departamentos de Antioquia, Cundinamarca, Cauca y Magdalena (Cuadro 1).

Los onicoforos de los generos Macroperipatus, Epiperipatus y Peripatus reportados para Colombia se caracterizan morfologicamente por presentar tres papilas en cada lobopodo (dos anteriores y una posterior), tuberculos nefridiales del cuarto y quinto par de lobopodos ubicados debajo de la tercera almohadilla de arrastre del lobopodo y por poseer doce pliegues en cada segmento del cuerpo (Peck 1975).

Taxonomia de onicoforos de Santander, Colombia y termogravimetria, calorimetria de barrido diferencial y espectroscopia infrarroja de la secrecion adhesiva (Onychophora: Peripatidae)

Estudiamos la ultraestructura de las neuronas y sus sinapsis del ganglio cefalico de un invertebrado poco conocido del phylum Onychophora: Peripatus sedgwicki de los Andes Venezolanos, utilizando para ello la microscopia electronica de transmision.

Synaptic dimorphism in Onychophoran cephalic ganglia