Velvet worms or Peripatus (Onychophora)


Velvet worms or Peripatus (Onychophora)

Announcements

Yesterday

NatureMapr recently presented the following 2025 partner update to the Threatened Species Commissioner and Environment Information Australia teams within Commonwealth DCCEEW in Canberra.Download our 2...


Continue reading

New feature: special fields for collections

Temporary disruption to attributes

New feature: duplicate a sighting

Capital Ecology backs NatureMapr for 2026

Discussion

trevorpreston wrote:
28 May 2025
I found it under some plywood rubbish behind a shop in Robertson in the Southern Highlands.

Unverified Velvet worm or Peripatus (Onychophora)
DaveRowell wrote:
27 May 2025
It's a species of Ooperipatus. This is an oviparous genus that is distributed mainly in south-eastern NSW. They never seem to be locally abundant, so it's a bit of a special find. Some locality info could get it down to species.

Unverified Velvet worm or Peripatus (Onychophora)
trevorpreston wrote:
11 May 2025
@DaveRowell is this identifiable?
Cheers.

Unverified Velvet worm or Peripatus (Onychophora)
Csteele4 wrote:
13 Sep 2024
Brilliant find, Chris!!

Euperipatoides rowelli
1Chris wrote:
2 Sep 2024
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yje9wmOeVds

Euperipatoides rowelli
825,076 sightings of 22,609 species from 14,243 members
CCA 3.0 | privacy
NatureMapr is developed and subsidised by at3am IT Pty Ltd and is proudly Australian made