City Worms (Onychophora): why do fragile invertebrates from an ancient lineage live in heavily urbanized areas?
Velvet worms, fragile invertebrates from an ancient lineage, are prone to extinction because of their small populations, low vagility and limited geographic ranges. However, I found that 19 species, nearly all of them Latin American and Caribbean peripatids, have been reported from heavily urbanized...
Main Author: | Julián Monge-Nájera |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED)
2018-02-01
|
Series: | Cuadernos de investigación UNED |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://revistas.uned.ac.cr/index.php/cuadernos/article/view/2045 |
Similar Items
-
Experimental taphonomy of velvet worms (Onychophora) and implications for the Cambrian "explosion, disparity and decimation" model
by: Julián Monge-Nájera, et al.
Published: (2002-12-01) -
Onychophora, Acoelomorpha and Brachiopoda (Animal Phylum) /
by: Watters, Aldo, author 648300
Published: (2012) -
The relationship between humidity, light and the activity pattern of a velvet worm, Epiperipatus sp. (Onychophora: Peripatidae), from Bahía Drake, South Pacific of Costa Rica
by: J. P. Barquero-González, et al.
Published: (2018-01-01) -
Molecular analyses reveal the occurrence of three new sympatric lineages of velvet worms (Onychophora: Peripatidae) in the eastern Amazon basin
by: Williana T. R. Cunha, et al.
Published: (2017-03-01) -
A proposed solution to the species problem in velvet worm conservation (Onychophora)
by: Ángel Sosa-Bartuano, et al.
Published: (2018-02-01)