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Cephalofovea tomahmontis

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Species of velvet worm

Cephalofovea tomahmontis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Onychophora
Family: Peripatopsidae
Genus: Cephalofovea
Species: C. tomahmontis
Binomial name
Cephalofovea tomahmontis
Ruhberg et al., 1988

Cephalofovea tomahmontis is a species of velvet worm in the Peripatopsidae family. This species is ovoviviparous, has 15 pairs of oncopods (legs), and lives in rotting logs and leaf litter. The type locality is Mount Tomah, New South Wales, Australia, after which this species is named. Like all members of the genus Cephalofovea, both sexes of C. tomahmontis have a furrow on the head, between the antennae, which the male everts to carry his spermatophore to the female.

References

  1. Oliveira I. S.; Hering L.; Mayer, G. "Updated Onychophora checklist". Onychophora Website. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  2. Reid, A.L.; Tait, N.N.; Briscoe, D.A.; Rowell, D.M. (1995-05-01). "Morphological, cytogenetic and allozymic variation within Cephalofovea (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae) with descriptions of three new species". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 114 (1): 115–138. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1995.tb00116.x. ISSN 0024-4082.
  3. 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. Bibcode:2012ZooK..211....1O. doi:10.3897/zookeys.211.3463. PMC 3426840. PMID 22930648.

Further reading

  • Elliot, S.; Tait, N. N.; Briscoe, D. A. (1993). "A pheromonal function for the crural glands of the onychophoran Cephalofovea tomahmontis (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae)". Journal of Zoology. 231 (1): 1–9. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1993.tb05348.x.
  • Ruhberg, H.; Tait, N. N.; Briscoe, D. A.; Storch, V. (1988). "Cephalofovea-tomahmontis n-gen, n-sp, an Australia Peripatopsid (Onychophora) with a unique cephalic pit". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 221 (3–4): 117–133.
Onychophora
Peripatidae
Neopatida
Peripatopsidae
Uncertain
†Antennipatus
†Helenodora
†Succinipatopsis
†Tertiapatus
Taxon identifiers
Cephalofovea tomahmontis


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