Paraperipatus ceramensis

{{Short description|Species of velvet worm}}

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| genus = Paraperipatus

| species = ceramensis

| authority = (Muir & Kershaw, 1909)

| synonyms =

• Peripatus ceramensis Muir & Kershaw, 1909

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Paraperipatus ceramensis is a species of velvet worm 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}} This species is grey-green with rust speckles.{{Cite book |last=Ruhberg |first=Hilke |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14872354 |title=Die Peripatopsidae (Onychophora) : Systematik, Ökologie, Chorologie und phylogenetische Aspekte |date=1985 |publisher=E. Schweizerbart |isbn=3-510-55023-4 |location=Stuttgart |language=German |oclc=14872354}} Females of this species have 21 or 22 pairs of legs (usually 21) and range from 13 mm to 55 mm in length.{{Cite journal |last1=Muir |first1=F. |last2=Kershaw |first2=J.C. |date=1909 |title=Peripatus ceramensis, n. sp. |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13908021#page/877/mode/1up |journal=Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science |volume=53 |pages=737–740 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}{{Cite book |last=Leloup |first=E. |url=https://biblio.naturalsciences.be/rbins-publications/occasional-scientific-results-of-the-trip-to-the-dutch-east-india-of-ll-aa-rr-the-prince-and-princess-leopold-of-belgium-published-by-victor-van-straelen/Vol2-1-1934/irscnb_d1896_03d3f6x_4-1-partie-9-red.pdf |title=Résultats scientifiques du voyage aux Indes orientales néerlandaises de LL. AA. RR. le prince et la princesse Léopold de Belgique |date=1931 |publisher=Musée royale d'histoire naturelle de Belgique |year=1931 |volume=2 |location=Bruxelles |pages=1–14 |language=French |chapter=Paraperipatus leopoldi nov. nom. |doi=}}{{Cite journal|last=Monge-Nájera|first=Julián|date=1994|title=Reproductive trends, habitat type and body characteristcs in velvet worms (Onychophora)|url=https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/23266|journal=Revista de Biología Tropical|volume=42 |issue=3 |language=en|pages=611–622|issn=2215-2075}} The type locality is in Seram, Indonesia.{{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}}