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Onychophora

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
PHYLUM

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Onychophora

Name

Synonyms
Euonychophora
Euonycophora
Udeonychophora
Udeonycophora
Homonyms
Onychophora
Onychophora W.Gams, P.J.Fisher & J.Webster
Common names
gusano aterciopelado in Spanish
onychophorans in language.
onychophorans in English
onychophorans in English
velvet worm in English
velvet worm in English
velvet worms in English
velvet worms in English
velvet worms in language.

Bibliographic References

  1. Arias-Paco, Andrés (26/05/2020) Efecto de los gusanos de terciopelo (Onychophora) en la cultura y arte durante el periodo 2014-2019; representaciones, temáticas y distribución mundial
  2. Brusca, Richard C., Wendy Moore, and Stephen M. Shuster, 2016: Chapter 20: The Emergence of the Arthropods. Tardigrades, Onychophorans, and the Arthropod Body Plan. Invertebrates, Third Edition. 709-760.
  3. Brusca, Richard C., and Gary J. Brusca, 1990: null. Invertebrates. xiii + 992.
  4. Brusca, Richard C., and Gary J. Brusca, 2002: null. Invertebrates, Second Edition. xx + 936.
  5. Costa, Cristiano Sampaio,Giribet, Gonzalo,Pinto-Da-Rocha, Ricardo (07/11/2020) Morphological and molecular phylogeny of Epiperipatus (Onychophora: Peripatidae): a combined approach
  6. Edgecombe, Gregory D. (31/07/2020) Arthropod Origins: Integrating Paleontological and Molecular Evidence
  7. Esposito, Lauren A.,Crews, Sarah C. (24/01/2020) Towards a synthesis of the Caribbean biogeography of terrestrial arthropods
  8. Giribet, Gonzalo, and Gregory D. Edgecombe, 2020: 30. Onychophora. The Invertebrate Tree of Life. 224-230.
  9. Grube, Adolph Eduard: Die Familien der Anneliden
  10. Hou, Xianguang,Edgecombe, Gregory D.,Shi, Xiaomei,Howard, Richard J.,Ma, Xiaoya (23/11/2020) Ancestral morphology of Ecdysozoa constrained by an early Cambrian stem group ecdysozoan
  11. Mayer, G.; Oliveira, I. D. S. (2013). Phylum Onychophora Grube, 1853. <em>In</em>: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3703(1): 15-16. 10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.5
  12. Mayer, G.; Oliveira, I. D. S. (2013). Phylum Onychophora Grube, 1853. <em>In</em>: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3703(1): 15-16. 10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.5
  13. Monge-Nájera, Julián (31/01/2021) Onychophorology, the study of velvet worms, historical trends, landmarks, and researchers from 1826 to 2020 (a literature review)
  14. Müller, Mark,Kumerics, Andreas,Mayer, Georg,Jahn, Henry,Oliveira, Ivo de Sena,Pfeiffer, Franz (16/10/2019) Functional morphology of a lobopod: case study of an onychophoran leg
  15. Oliveira, Ivo de Sena, V. Morley St. J. Read, and Georg Mayer, 2012: A world checklist of Onychophora (velvet worms), with notes on nomenclature and status of names. ZooKeys, vol. 211. 1-70.
  16. Ruggiero, M. A., D. P. Gordon, T. M. Orrell, N. Bailly, T. Bourgoin, R. C. Brusca, et al., 2015: Correction: A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE vol. 10, no. 6, e0130114.
  17. Ruggiero, M. A.; Gordon, D. P.; Orrell, T. M.; Bailly, N.; Bourgoin, T.; Brusca, R. C.; Cavalier-Smith, T.; Guiry, M. D.; Kirk, P. M. (2015). A higher level classification of all living organisms. <em>PLOS ONE.</em> 10(4): e0119248. 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248
  18. Steiner, Michael,Liu, Jianni,Shu, Degan,Dunlop, Jason A. (01/08/2020) A Cambrian fossil from the Chengjiang fauna sharing characters with gilled lobopodians and radiodontans
  19. Sánchez-Gracia, Alejandro,Hering, Lars,Frías-López, Cristina,Mayer, Georg,Vizueta, Joel,Guirao-Rico, Sara,Rozas, Julio,Escuer, Paula (04/08/2020) Evolutionary History of Major Chemosensory Gene Families across Panarthropoda
  20. Wells, Susan M.,Pyle, Robert M.,Collins, N. Mark (1983) The IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book
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