Peripatopsis hamerae

{{Short description|Species of velvet worm}}

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| genus = Peripatopsis

| species = hamerae

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Peripatopsis hamerae 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 a clade in the P. moseleyi species complex. The original description of this species is based on one specimen of each sex, each measuring 22 mm in length with a black dorsal surface and creamy white ventral surface. The male of this species has 22 pairs of pregenital legs and one pair of genital legs; the female has 23 pairs of pregenital legs and one pair of genital legs. Also known as the Kamala velvet worm,{{Cite web |title=Kamala Velvetworm (Peripatopsis hamerae) |url=https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/682704-Peripatopsis-hamerae |access-date=2023-03-12 |website=iNaturalist |language=en}} this species is known only from Groot Bruintjieshoogte in South Africa.{{Cite journal |last=Ruhberg |first=Hilke |last2=Daniels |first2=Savel R. |date=2013-05-24 |title=Morphological assessment supports the recognition of four novel species in the widely distributed velvet worm Peripatopsis moseleyi sensu lato (Onychophora : Peripatopsidae) |url=https://www.publish.csiro.au/is/IS12069 |journal=Invertebrate Systematics |language=en |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=131–145 |doi=10.1071/IS12069 |issn=1447-2600|url-access=subscription }}