Detailed Record for Ooperipatus hispidus

Common Name: Velvet worm

Taxonomy: Phylum Onychophora / Class Udeonycophora / Order Onychophorida / Family Peripatopsidae / Genus Ooperipatus

C-value (pg): 5.25

Method: Feulgen Image Analysis Densitometry

Cell Type: Haemocytes

Standard Species: Gallus domesticus = 1.25pg

References:
Jeffery, N.W., I.S. Oliveira, T.R. Gregory, D.M. Rowell, and G. Mayer (2012). Genome size and chromosome number in velvet worms (Onychophora). Genetica 140: 497–504.

Other records available for this species:

Ooperipatus hispidus = 4.88 (pg)

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