Heteroperipatus
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Heteroperipatus is a small genus of invertebrate
in the Peripatidae
family.
It contains the following two species:
Invertebrate
An invertebrate is an animal without a backbone. The group includes 97% of all animal species – all animals except those in the chordate subphylum Vertebrata .Invertebrates form a paraphyletic group...
in the Peripatidae
Peripatidae
Peripatidae is a family of velvet worms.-Genera:* Eoperipatus * Epiperipatus * Heteroperipatus * Macroperipatus * Mesoperipatus * Oroperipatus...
family.
It contains the following two species:
- Heteroperipatus clarki (Dunn, 1943)
- Heteroperipatus engelhardi Zilch, 1954