Ooperipatus

{{Short description|Genus of velvet worms}}

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| taxon = Ooperipatus

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Ooperipatus is a genus of velvet worms in the family Peripatopsidae.{{cite web|author=Oliveira, I.|author2=Hering, L.|author3=Mayer, G.|name-list-style=amp|title=Updated Onychophora checklist|url=http://www.onychophora.com/list.htm|website=Onychophora Website|access-date=24 November 2016}}{{cite web|title=Australian Faunal Directory|url=https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/ONYCHOPHORA/checklist|website=Australian Government Department of the Environment|access-date=29 June 2016}}{{cite journal|last1=Oliveira|first1=I. S.|last2=Read|first2=V. M. S. J.|last3=Mayer|first3=G.|title=A world checklist of Onychophora (velvet worms), with notes on nomenclature and status of names|journal=ZooKeys|date=2012|issue=211|pages=1–70|doi=10.3897/zookeys.211.3463|pmid=22930648|pmc=3426840|doi-access=free}} They are found in Australia. All species in this genus are oviparous and have 15 pairs of oncopods (legs).{{Cite journal |last=Reid |first=Amanda L. |date=2000 |title=Descriptions of Lathropatus nemorum, gen. et sp. nov., and six new Ooperipatus Dendy (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae) from south-eastern Australia |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59283366#page/51/mode/1up |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria |volume=112 |issue=2 |pages=153–184 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}