Onychophora
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Onychophora, commonly known as velvet worms, is a phylum of long, soft-bodied, many-legged animals. In appearance, they have variously been compared to worms with legs, caterpillars, and slugs. All li
Onycophora
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Peripatoides novaezealandiae flipped upside down
Head region of Ooperipatellus viridimaculatus, showing its oral papillae and mouthparts
Peripatidae
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The Peripatidae or Equatorial velvet worms are a family of velvet worms. This family includes more than 90 described species distributed among 13 genera, but some authorities deem only 80 of these spe
Onychophora
…232 species of velvet worms have been described, although the true number is likely to be much greater. The two extant families of velvet worms are Peripatidae and Peripatopsidae. They show a peculiar distribution, with the peripatids being predominantly equatorial and tropical, while the peripatopsids are all…
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