Peripatopsis balfouri

{{Short description|Species of velvet worm}}

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| genus = Peripatopsis

| species = balfouri

| authority = (Sedgwick, 1885)

| synonyms =

• Peripatus balfouri (Sedgwick, 1885)
• Peripatopsis stelliporata Sherbon & Walker, 2004

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Peripatopsis balfouri is a species of velvet worm in the Peripatopsidae family.{{cite web|author=Oliveira, I. S.|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 18 pairs of clawed legs (with the last pair more reduced in the male than in the female).{{Cite journal|last1=Daniels|first1=Savel R.|last2=McDonald|first2=Dane E.|last3=Picker|first3=Mike D.|date=2013|title=Evolutionary insight into the Peripatopsis balfouri sensu lato species complex (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae) reveals novel lineages and zoogeographic patterning|url=https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12025|journal=Zoologica Scripta|volume=42|issue=6|pages=656–674|doi=10.1111/zsc.12025|s2cid=83758118|issn=0300-3256|url-access=subscription}}{{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}}{{Cite journal |last=Purcell |first=W.F. |date=1899 |title=On the South African species of Peripatidae in the collection of the South African Museum |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1520227#page/357/mode/1up |journal=Annals of the South African Museum |volume=1 |pages=331–351 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}{{Cite journal |last1=Hamer |first1=M.L. |last2=Samways |first2=M.J. |last3=Ruhberg |first3=H. |date=1997 |title=A review of the Onychophora of South Africa, with discussion of their conservation |url=https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA03040798_179 |journal=Annals of the Natal Museum |volume=38 |issue=1 |pages=283–312}} Also known as the blue velvet worm,{{Cite web |title=Southern Blue Velvetworm (Peripatopsis balfouri) |url=https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/682702-Peripatopsis-balfouri |access-date=2023-03-12 |website=iNaturalist |language=en}} this species ranges from 9 mm to 22 mm in length. The type locality is in South Africa.{{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|bibcode=2012ZooK..211....1O }}