Ooperipatus porcatus
{{Short description|Species of velvet worm}}
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Ooperipatus porcatus is a species of velvet worm in the Peripatopsidae family.{{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}} This species has 15 pairs of 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}} It is found in Victoria, Australia.{{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}}
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Category:Onychophorans of Australasia
Category:Animals described in 2000
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