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Opisthopatus cinctipes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Onychophora
Family:	Peripatopsidae
Genus:	Opisthopatus
Species:	O. cinctipes
Binomial name
Opisthopatus cinctipes Purcell, 1899

Opisthopatus cinctipes is a species of velvet worm in the Peripatopsidae family. This species has 16 pairs of legs, all with claws and all used for walking. The color of the dorsal surface varies from blue to olive green. Females range from 7 mm to 50 mm in length, whereas males range from 6 mm to 36 mm. Like other velvet worms in this genus, this species exhibits matrotrophic viviparity, that is, mothers in this genus retain eggs in their uteri and supply nourishment to their embryos, but without any placenta. The type locality is in South Africa .

References

1. Oliveira I. S.; Hering L.; Mayer, G. "Updated Onychophora checklist". Onychophora Website. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
2. ^ Daniels, Savel R.; Dambire, Charlene; Klaus, Sebastian; Sharma, Prashant P. (2016). "Unmasking alpha diversity, cladogenesis and biogeographical patterning in an ancient panarthropod lineage (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae: Opisthopatus cinctipes) with the description of five novel species". Cladistics. 32 (5): 506–537. doi:10.1111/cla.12154. ISSN 1096-0031. PMID 34727674. S2CID 49525550.
3. Purcell, W.F. (1899). "On the South African species of Peripatidae in the collection of the South African Museum". Annals of the South African Museum. 1: 331–351 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
4. Purcell, W.F. (1900). "On the anatomy of Opisthopatus cinctipes Purcell, with notes on other, principally South African Onychophora". Annals of the South African Museum. 2: 67–116 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
5. Monge-Nájera, Julián (1994). "Reproductive trends, habitat type and body characteristcs in velvet worms (Onychophora)". Revista de Biología Tropical. 42 (3): 611–622. ISSN 2215-2075.
6. Mayer, Georg; Franke, Franziska Anni; Treffkorn, Sandra; Gross, Vladimir; de Sena Oliveira, Ivo (2015), Wanninger, Andreas (ed.), "Onychophora", Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates 3, Vienna: Springer Vienna, pp. 53–98, doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-1865-8_4, ISBN 978-3-7091-1864-1, retrieved 2023-02-15
7. 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

• Storch, V.; Ruhberg, H. (1977). "Formation of spermatophore of Opisthopatus cinctipes Percell, 1899 (Onychophora, Peripatopsidae)". Zoomorphologie. 87 (3): 263–276. doi:10.1007/BF00995824. S2CID 25566521.
• Storch, V.; Alberti, G.; Ruhberg, H. (1979). "Light and electron microscopical investigations of the salivary glands of Opisthopatus cinctipes and Peripatopsis moseleyi (Onychophora, Peripatopsidae)". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 203 (1–2): 35–47.
• Braband, A.; Cameron, S. L.; Podsiadlowski, L.; Daniels, S. R.; Meyer, G. (2010). "The mitochondrial genome of the onychophoran Opisthopatus cinctipes (Peripatopsidae) reflects the ancestral mitochondrial gene arrangement of Panarthropoda and Ecdysozoa". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 57 (1): 285–292. Bibcode:2010MolPE..57..285B. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.05.011. PMID 20493270.
• Ruhberg, H.; Storch, V. (1978). "Ultrastructure of accessory genital glands of Opisthopatus cinctipes (Onychophora, Peripatopsidae)". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 200 (5–6): 289–299.
• Walker, M. H. (1992). "Seminal receptacula in the female reproductive-tract of Opisthopatus cinctipes Purcell (Onychophora, Peripatopsidae)". Journal of Morphology. 213 (1): 15–20. doi:10.1002/jmor.1052130103. PMID 29865585. S2CID 46933693.
• Walker, M. H. (1995). "Relatively recent evolution of an unusual pattern of early-embryonic development (long germ band) in a South-African onychophoran Opisthopatus cinctipes Purcell (Onychophora, Peripatopsidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 144 (1): 61–75. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1995.tb00112.x.

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