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Wambalana

genus of worms

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ19337305 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wambalana is a monospecific genus of ovoviviparous velvet worms containing the single species Wambalana makrothele. This species has 15 pairs of legs in both sexes. The type locality of this species is Telegherry State Forest, New South Wales, Australia.

References

Further reading

Reid, A. L. (1996). "Review of the Peripatopsidae (Onychophora) in Australia, with Comments on Peripatopsid Relationships". Invertebrate Taxonomy. 10 (4): 663–936. doi:10.1071/IT9960663.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Wambalana” is genus of worms. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Wambalana, genus and worms, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 1071—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Wambalana, genus and worms is the immediate research focus.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19337305. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1996 and 1071.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wambalana” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.