Hylonomoipos Brookensis
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''Hylonomoipos'' is a genus of
velvet worm Onychophora (from , , "claws"; and , , "to carry"), commonly known as velvet worms (for their velvety texture and somewhat wormlike appearance) or more ambiguously as peripatus (after the first described genus, '' Peripatus''), is a phylum of e ...
s in the family
Peripatopsidae Peripatopsidae or the Southern Velvet Worms are one of two extant families of velvet worm. This family includes more than 140 described species distributed among 41 genera, but some authorities deem only 131 of these species to be valid. The Fre ...
. All species in this genus have 15 pairs of legs in both sexes. They are found in southeastern
Queensland, Australia Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, ...
.


Species

The genus contains the following species: * '' Hylonomoipos akares'' Reid, 1996 * '' Hylonomoipos brookensis'' Reid, 1996


References


Further reading

* Onychophorans of Australasia Onychophoran genera Taxa named by Amanda Reid (malacologist) {{Onychophora-stub