Euperipatoides kanangrensis

Euperipatoides kanangrensis is a species of velvet worm of the Peripatopsidae family, described in 1996 from specimens collected in Kanangra-Boyd National Park, New South Wales. This species has 15 pairs of legs in both sexes.[1] It is endemic to Australia. The embryonic development of Euperipatoides kanangrensis has been described.[2][3] This species is viviparous.[4] This species is used as model organism for the last common ancestor of the Panarthropoda. It resembles fossil Cambrian lobopodians.[5]

Euperipatoides kanangrensis
Euperipatoides kanangrensis pacing along on a eucalyptus log in which it normally resides in Australia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Onychophora
Family: Peripatopsidae
Genus: Euperipatoides
Species:
E. kanangrensis
Binomial name
Euperipatoides kanangrensis
(Reid, 1996)

References

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  1. ^ Reid, A. L. (1996). "Review of the Peripatopsidae (Onychophora) in Australia, with comments on peripatopsid relationships". Invertebrate Systematics. 10 (4): 663–936. doi:10.1071/it9960663. ISSN 1447-2600.
  2. ^ Eriksson, Bo Joakim; Tait, Noel N. (September 2012). "Early development in the velvet worm Euperipatoides kanangrensis Reid 1996 (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae)". Arthropod Structure & Development. 41 (5): 483–493. doi:10.1016/j.asd.2012.02.009. PMC 3437555. PMID 22430148.
  3. ^ Janssen, Ralf; Budd, Graham E. (October 2013). "Deciphering the onychophoran 'segmentation gene cascade': Gene expression reveals limited involvement of pair rule gene orthologs in segmentation, but a highly conserved segment polarity gene network". Developmental Biology. 382 (1): 224–234. doi:10.1016/j.ydbio.2013.07.010. PMID 23880430.
  4. ^ Baker, Caitlin M; Buckman-Young, Rebecca S; Costa, Cristiano S; Giribet, Gonzalo (2021-12-09). Xia, Xuhua (ed.). "Phylogenomic Analysis of Velvet Worms (Onychophora) Uncovers an Evolutionary Radiation in the Neotropics". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38 (12): 5391–5404. doi:10.1093/molbev/msab251. ISSN 1537-1719. PMC 8662635. PMID 34427671.
  5. ^ Ou, Qiang; Shu, Degan; Mayer, Georg (January 2012). "Cambrian lobopodians and extant onychophorans provide new insights into early cephalization in Panarthropoda". Nature Communications. 3 (1): 1261. Bibcode:2012NatCo...3.1261O. doi:10.1038/ncomms2272. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 3535342. PMID 23232391.

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