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Peripatus jamaicensis, Grabh. and Ckll., was described in NATURE, vol. xlvi. p. 514. At that time it was supposed that all the Jamaican specimens represented a single variable species, but the differences observed were considerable, so that the writer (Zool. Anz., xvi. 341) later separated two “mutations,” named gossei and swainsonae. M. E. L. Bouvier has of late years been making admirable studies of Peripatus and its allies, and having procured from London and Cambridge the original Jamaican specimens, he finds that there are in reality two species represented (Q. Journ. Micr. Science, xliii. 755). These he classifies as follows:—
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COCKERELL, T. The Jamaican Species of Peripatus. Nature 63, 325–326 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/063325e0
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