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IRMNG taxon details

Onychophora

224  (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:224)

Grube, 1853
accepted
Phylum
Euonychophora · unaccepted (Not used in current classification)
Helenodoridae Poinar, 2000 † · unaccepted (Not used in current classification)
Ontonychophora † · unaccepted (Not used in current classification)
Succinipatopsidae Poinar, 2000 † · unaccepted (Not used in current classification)
Tertiapatidae Poinar, 2000 † · unaccepted (Not used in current classification)
Udeonychophora · unaccepted (Not used in current classification)

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  1. Genus Antennipatus Garwood, Edgecombe & Giribet, 2016 †
  2. Genus Helenodora Thompson & Jones, 1980 †
  3. Family Peripatidae Evans, 1901
  4. Family Peripatopsidae Bouvier, 1904
  5. Genus Succinipatopsis Poinar, 2000 †
  6. Genus Tertiapatus Poinar, 2000 †
  7. Order Euonychophora accepted as Onychophora (Not used in current classification)
  8. Family Helenodoridae Poinar, 2000 † accepted as Onychophora (Not used in current classification)
  9. Order Ontonychophora † accepted as Onychophora (Not used in current classification)
  10. Family Succinipatopsidae Poinar, 2000 † accepted as Onychophora (Not used in current classification)
  11. Family Tertiapatidae Poinar, 2000 † accepted as Onychophora (Not used in current classification)
  12. Class Udeonychophora accepted as Onychophora (Not used in current classification)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Not documented
IRMNG (2025). Onychophora. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224 on 2026-04-03
Date
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2010-05-31 22:00:00Z
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2011-12-31 23:00:00Z
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2017-04-07 22:26:17Z
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additional source Mayer, G.; Oliveira, I. D. S. (2013). Phylum Onychophora Grube, 1853. <em>In</em>: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3703(1): 15-16., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.5 [details] 

additional source Oliveira, I. D. S. (2023). An updated world checklist of velvet worms (Onychophora) with notes on nomenclature and status of names. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 1184: 133-260., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1184.107286 [details] 

current name source Ruggiero, M. A.; Gordon, D. P.; Orrell, T. M.; Bailly, N.; Bourgoin, T.; Brusca, R. C.; Cavalier-Smith, T.; Guiry, M. D.; Kirk, P. M. (2015). A higher level classification of all living organisms. <em>PLOS ONE.</em> 10(4): e0119248., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119248 [details] 

extant flag source Mayer, G.; Oliveira, I. D. S. (2013). Phylum Onychophora Grube, 1853. <em>In</em>: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3703(1): 15-16., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.5 [details] 

habitat flag source web search (AJR) [details] 

original description (of Udeonychophora) Poinar, G., Jr. (2000). Fossil onychophorans from Dominican and Baltic amber: Tertiapatus dominicanus n.g., n.sp. (Tertiapatidae n.fam.) and Succinipatopsis balticus n.g., n.sp. (Succinipatopsidae n.fam.) with a proposed classification of the subphylum Onychophora. <em>Invertebrate Biology.</em> 119(1): 104-109., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7410.2000.tb00178.x [details] 

original description (of Euonychophora) Hutchinson, G. E. (1930). Restudy of some Burgess Shale fossils. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 78(2854): 1-24., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7526900
page(s): 23 [details] 

original description (of Ontonychophora †) Poinar, G., Jr. (2000). Fossil onychophorans from Dominican and Baltic amber: Tertiapatus dominicanus n.g., n.sp. (Tertiapatidae n.fam.) and Succinipatopsis balticus n.g., n.sp. (Succinipatopsidae n.fam.) with a proposed classification of the subphylum Onychophora. <em>Invertebrate Biology.</em> 119(1): 104-109., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7410.2000.tb00178.x [details] 

original description (of Tertiapatidae Poinar, 2000 †) Poinar, G., Jr. (2000). Fossil onychophorans from Dominican and Baltic amber: Tertiapatus dominicanus n.g., n.sp. (Tertiapatidae n.fam.) and Succinipatopsis balticus n.g., n.sp. (Succinipatopsidae n.fam.) with a proposed classification of the subphylum Onychophora. <em>Invertebrate Biology.</em> 119(1): 104-109., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7410.2000.tb00178.x [details] 

original description (of Helenodoridae Poinar, 2000 †) Poinar, G., Jr. (2000). Fossil onychophorans from Dominican and Baltic amber: Tertiapatus dominicanus n.g., n.sp. (Tertiapatidae n.fam.) and Succinipatopsis balticus n.g., n.sp. (Succinipatopsidae n.fam.) with a proposed classification of the subphylum Onychophora. <em>Invertebrate Biology.</em> 119(1): 104-109., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7410.2000.tb00178.x [details] 

original description (of Succinipatopsidae Poinar, 2000 †) Poinar, G., Jr. (2000). Fossil onychophorans from Dominican and Baltic amber: Tertiapatus dominicanus n.g., n.sp. (Tertiapatidae n.fam.) and Succinipatopsis balticus n.g., n.sp. (Succinipatopsidae n.fam.) with a proposed classification of the subphylum Onychophora. <em>Invertebrate Biology.</em> 119(1): 104-109., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7410.2000.tb00178.x [details] 
Unreviewed
Habitat Marine and nonmarine [details]

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