Abstract
Peripatus has been found not only in Queensland and Victoria, but also at Cassilis, in New South Wales, by Mr. A. S. Olliff, of Sydney. The Victorian and New South Wales localities are recorded in a postcript appended to my monograph of the genus as reprinted from vol. iv. of the “Studies from the Morphological Laboratory of the University of Cambridge.” My knowledge of them is due to Mr. Olliff, who was kind enough to send me his specimen and his description of it (Proc. Linn. Soc. of New South Wales, November 30, 1887). The New South Wales species is, I think, identical with that found in Queensland, and I should be inclined to doubt the distinctness of the Victorian species recorded by Mr. Dendy in NATURE (p. 366), and previously by Mr. Fletcher.
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SEDGWICK, A. Peripatus in Australia. Nature 39, 412–413 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039412f0
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