Oroperipatus intermedius ( Bouvier, 1901 )

Sarmiento, Jaime, Barrera, Soraya, Mariscal, Alberto & Saj, Stéphane, 2025, Over a century later, new records of Oroperipatus balzani (Camerano, 1897; Onychophora: Peripatidae) from Sara Ana Research and Training Center (Bolivian Yungas, La Paz, Bolivia), with a checklist of the species known from the country, Soil Organisms (Toronto, Ont.) 97 (1), pp. 43-54 : 49

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scientific name	Oroperipatus intermedius ( Bouvier, 1901 )
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2. Oroperipatus intermedius ( Bouvier, 1901) View in CoL

Synonyms:

Peripatus intermedius View in CoL as originally designated ( Bouvier 1901: 168);

Peripatus intermedius ( Bouvier 1905: 154) View in CoL Oroperipatus intermedius ( Clark 1913: 16) View in CoL Oroperipatus intermedius ( Peck 1975: 347) View in CoL

Holotype: Preserved at the Natural History Museum of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.

Type locality: BOLIVIA, La Paz, Sorata.

Distribution: Known solely from the type locality.

Specimen localization: Natural History Museum of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.

Language of species description: French.

Taxonomic characteristics: Requires thorough revision.

Remarks: Described by Bouvier (1901) from a female specimen collected in Bolivia and housed at the Natural History Museum of Lübeck, Germany. The museum was severely damaged during World War II, and the collection material, including type material, was destroyed. We could not ascertain the survival of the type specimen for O. intermedius . Nevertheless, obtaining new collections to elucidate taxonomic and biological information about this species is imperative.