''Ruhbergia'' is a genus of
velvet worms
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 ...
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 are
ovoviviparous
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(with yolky
ova
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) and have 15 pairs of legs in both sexes.
They are found in
New South Wales
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, Australia.
Species
The genus contains the following species:
* ''
Ruhbergia bifalcata''
Reid, 1996
* ''
Ruhbergia brevicorna''
Reid, 1996
* ''
Ruhbergia rostroides''
Reid, 1996
References
Onychophorans of Australasia
Onychophoran genera
Taxa named by Amanda Reid (malacologist)
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