Definition of Genus peripatus

1. Noun. Type genus of Peripatidae; onychophorans of chiefly New World tropical regions.

Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Peripatidae, Peripatidae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Peripatus

genus Peneus
genus Penicillium
genus Pennatula
genus Pennisetum
genus Penstemon
genus Peperomia
genus Perca
genus Percina
genus Perdix
genus Pereskia
genus Pericallis
genus Peridinium
genus Perilla
genus Periophthalmus
genus Peripatopsis
genus Peripatus
genus Periplaneta
genus Periploca
genus Perisoreus
genus Peristedion
genus Pernis
genus Perodicticus
genus Perognathus
genus Peromyscus
genus Peronospora
genus Persea
genus Persoonia
genus Pertusaria
genus Petasites
genus Petaurista

Literary usage of Genus peripatus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"All known members of this class have been included until recently in a single genus Peripatus; but now the fifty or more known species are distributed among ..."

2. Outlines of zoology by John Arthur Thomson (1895)
"There is a series of excretory tubes or nephridia. The halves of the ventral nerve cord are widely separate. The single genus Peripatus is represented by ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1883)
"... in the publication of a monograph on the anatomy and development of the members of the genus Peripatus, together with an account of all known species. ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The original genus Peripatus has recently been divided by some authorities into several genera. Consult Sedgwick, A., article on Peripatus in "The Cambridge ..."

5. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1908)
"The Onychophora comprise the single genus Peripatus which was discovered in St Vincent in the Antilles in 1826. Later, specimens of it were obtained from ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"The first class of the antenna-bearing group contains the single genus Peripatus—one of the most interesting and ancestral of animals, as proved by its ..."

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