Editing Peripatus (section)

== Description ==
Velvet worms in this genus may have as few as 24 or 25 pairs of legs (in ''P. antiguensis'' or ''[[Peripatus dominicae|P. dominicae]]'', respectively)<ref name=":1">{{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]] |language=en |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages=611–622 |issn=2215-2075}}</ref><ref name="Read1988">{{cite journal |last1=Read |first1=V. M. St. J. |date=July 1988 |title=The Onychophora of Trinidad, Tobago, and the Lesser Antilles |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=93 |issue=3 |pages=225–57 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1988.tb01362.x}}</ref> or as many as 36 leg pairs (in ''[[Peripatus evelinae|P. evelinae]]'').<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Froehlich |first=Claudio G. |date=1968-03-01 |title=On some Brazilian Onychophores |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/01650526809360404 |journal=Beiträge zur Neotropischen Fauna |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=160–171 |doi=10.1080/01650526809360404 |bibcode=1968BeiNF...5..160F |issn=0005-8130|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Males in this genus bear crural [[Tubercle|tubercles]] on more than two pregenital leg pairs. The dorsal primary papillae in this genus feature an apical piece that is larger than the basal piece.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Oliveira |first1=Ivo de Sena |last2=Franke |first2=Franziska Anni |last3=Hering |first3=Lars |last4=Schaffer |first4=Stefan |last5=Rowell |first5=David M. |last6=Weck-Heimann |first6=Andreas |last7=Monge-Nájera |first7=Julián |last8=Morera-Brenes |first8=Bernal |last9=Mayer |first9=Georg |date=2012-12-17 |title=Unexplored Character Diversity in Onychophora (Velvet Worms): A Comparative Study of Three Peripatid Species |journal=PLOS ONE |language=en |volume=7 |issue=12 |pages=e51220 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0051220 |doi-access=free |issn=1932-6203 |pmc=3524137 |pmid=23284667|bibcode=2012PLoSO...751220O }}</ref>