Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Genus Ooperipatus Dendy, 1900

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Genus Ooperipatus Dendy, 1900

  • Ooperipatus Dendy, A. 1900. Preliminary note on a proposed new genus of Onychophora. Zoologischer Anzeiger 23: 415-416 [415].
    Type species:
     Peripatus oviparus Dendy, 1895 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Australian Capital Territory
    • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

General References

Reid, A.L. 2000. Descriptions of Lathropatus nemorum, gen. et sp. nov. and six new Ooperipatus Dendy (Onycophora: Peripatopsidae) from south-eastern Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 112(2): 153-184 [153, 162] (discussion, revised diagnosis, new species)