A proposed solution to the species problem in velvet worm conservation (Onychophora)

Sosa-Bartuano, Ángel; Mónge-Nájera, Julían; Morera-Brenes, Bernal

doi:10.22458/urj.v10i1.2027

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“…One of the known obstacles to the conservation of invertebrates is the poor state of knowledge of the species, many still unnamed. In the case of velvet worms, the difficulty to describe a species is notorious, and one recent proposed solution to deal with this problem is to connect information about undescribed species to common names ( Sosa-Bartuano, Monge-Nájera & Morera-Brenes, 2018 )⁠.…”

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Epiperipatus puri sp. nov., a new velvet worm from Atlantic Forest in Southeastern Brazil (Onychophora, Peripatidae)

Costa,

Mendes,

Giupponi

2023

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Epiperipatus ohausi (Bouvier, 1900) is the first species known from Rio de Janeiro, and more than 120 years later a new species is described in the state of Rio de Janeiro (RJ). In this study, we describe the second species in the state of Rio de Janeiro, which we are naming in honor of the indigenous population called puri who resided in southeastern coastal Brazil. The species can be diagnosed mainly by large dorsal primary papillae close to the insertion of the legs drawing a light band from the anterior to the posterior region of the body, and large dorsal primary papillae alternating on the dorsal plicae. Moreover, they are recognized in vivo by the color of the diamond-shaped marks brownish orange on the dorsal portion of the body. Epiperipatus puri sp. nov. morphologically seems to be related to Epiperipatus acacioi (Marcus & Marcus, 1995) by the shape of the primary papillae apical piece and to E. ohausi by the resemblance of dorsal papillae. The phylogeny shows a close relationship between the new species and E. ohausi in a clade with a still undescribed species from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil located within the Atlantic Forest, one of the most threatened biomes in the world.

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Epiperipatus puri sp. nov., a new velvet worm from Atlantic Forest in Southeastern Brazil (Onychophora, Peripatidae)

Costa,

Mendes,

Giupponi

2023

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“…We tabulated all collection records from the Onychophora Database of the Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica (Project 0094-17), and from the literature (Monge et al, 1993;Concha et al, 2015;Barquero-González et al, 2016a,2016b, Giribet et al, 2018, Sosa-Bartuano et al, 2018. Additionally, we collected all available records from in-line sources as detailed in Barquero et al (2016a), and from our own field observations; and we introduced them to the Costa Rica GIS of the Laboratorio de Ecología Urbana, Universidad Estatal a Distancia, San José (full records in Appendix 1).…”

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The conservation status of Costa Rican velvet worms (Onychophora): geographic pattern, risk assessment and comparison with New Zealand velvet worms

Morera-Brenes

Mónge-Nájera

Mora

2019

URJ

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Introduction: Charismatic species, like the panda, play an important role in conservation, and velvet worms arguably are charismatic worms. Thanks to their extraordinary hunting mechanism, they have inspired from a female metal band in Japan, to origami worms in Russia and video game monsters in the USA. Objective: To assess their conservation status in Costa Rica (according to data in the UNA Onychophora Database) and compare it with equivalent data from elsewhere. Methods: we located all collection records of the 29 species in the map of the Costa Rican Conservation Network. Results: We found that seven species are protected inside Forest Reserves, five in Protected Zones, four in Wildlife Refuges, two in National Parks and one, Principapillatus hitoyensis, in a strictly pristine Biological Reserve. The largest species in the world, Peripatus solorzanoi, occurs both inside a Forest Reserve and in protected private land. Protection inside Costa Rican nature areas is enforced year-round by personnel that includes armed guards and is supported by educational programs in surrounding communities. Twelve species have not been found in protected areas, but in Costa Rica, all biological species, named and unnamed, are protected by law and cannot be legally collected, or exported, without technically issued permits. Conclusion: Like in the only other country with similar information (New Zealand), the conservation of onychophorans seems to be of least concern for at least two thirds of the known Costa Rican species. Epiperipatus isthmicola, recently rediscovered after a century of absence in collections, can be considered Threatened because nearly all of its natural habitat has now been covered by a city.

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“…We tabulated all collection records from the Onychophora Database of the Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica (Project 0094-17), and from the literature (Monge et al, 1993;Concha et al, 2014;Barquero-González et al, 2016a,2016b, Giribet et al, 2018, Sosa-Bartuano et al, 2018. Additionally, we collected all available records from in-line sources as described in Barquero et al (2016b), and from our own field observations, and we introduced them to the Costa Rica GIS of the Laboratorio de Ecología Urbana, Universidad Estatal a Distancia, San José (in full records Appendix 1).…”

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The conservation status of Costa Rican velvet worms (Onychophora)

Morera-Brenes

Mónge-Nájera

Carrera-Mora

2018

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Charismatic species, like the panda, play an important role in conservation, and velvet worms arguably are charismatic worms. Thanks to their extraordinary hunting mechanism, they have inspired from a female metal band in Japan, to origami worms in Russia and video game monsters in the USA. Objective: To assess their conservation status in Costa Rica. Methods: we located all collection records of the 29 known species from the Onychophora Database in the map of the Costa Rican Conservation Network. Results: We found that seven species are protected inside forest reserves, five in Protected Zones, four in Wildlife Refuges, two in National Parks and one, Principapillatus hitoyensis, in a strictly pristine Biological Reserve. The largest species in the world, Peripatus solorzanoi, occurs both inside a Forest Reserve and in protected private land. Protection inside Costa Rican nature areas is enforced year round by personnel that includes armed guards, and is supported by educational programs in surrounding communities. Twelve species have not been found in protected areas, but in Costa Rica, all biological species, named and unnamed, are protected by law and cannot be legally collected, or exported, without technically issued permits. Conclusion: Like in the only other country with similar information (New Zealand), the conservation of onychophorans seems to be of least concern for at least two thirds of the known species. Epiperipatus isthmicola, recently rediscovered after a century of absence in collections, can be considered Threatened because nearly all of its natural habitat has now been covered by a city.

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A proposed solution to the species problem in velvet worm conservation (Onychophora)

Cited by 9 publications

References 19 publications

Epiperipatus puri sp. nov., a new velvet worm from Atlantic Forest in Southeastern Brazil (Onychophora, Peripatidae)

Epiperipatus puri sp. nov., a new velvet worm from Atlantic Forest in Southeastern Brazil (Onychophora, Peripatidae)

The conservation status of Costa Rican velvet worms (Onychophora): geographic pattern, risk assessment and comparison with New Zealand velvet worms

The conservation status of Costa Rican velvet worms (Onychophora)

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