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An annotated catalogue of the velvet worms (Onychophora) held in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

2010; Pensoft Publishers; Volume: 86; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/zoos.201000005

1860-0743

Doreen Röhlig, Jason A. Dunlop, Hilke Ruhberg, Anja Friederichs,

Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology

An annotated catalogue of the type and non-type material belonging to the Onychophora (velvet worms) in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin is presented. Types of three species have been recorded: Peripatus juanensis Bouvier, 1900, Epiperipatus nicaraguensis (Bouvier, 1900) and Peripatoides woodwardi Bouvier, 1909 [= Occiperipatoides gilesii (Spencer 1909)]. Types of two further species – Paraperipatus schultzei Heymons, 1912 and Paraperipatus schultzei var. ferrugineus Heymons, 1912 – are registered as having been present, but could not be traced and may have to be treated as lost. Additionally, eleven non-type species were recorded. This yields a total of thirteen currently valid species in Berlin, representing about 7 % of the known world fauna; with total holdings of ca. 30 individual lots. In addition to these systematic collections, histological material (ca. 150 slides) originally prepared in Breslau [= Wrocław] by Eduard Gaffron is documented. (© 2010 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)