A peculiar predator skulks across the forest floor. It’s dreadfully slow, but the cover of darkness — and leaf litter — keeps it hidden. It glides along dozens of stumpy legs, but it’s no centipede: ...
Velvet worms, otherwise known as Onychophora, are reclusive little animals that have changed very little in the last 500 million years. Scientists have described some 180 modern species. They can be ...
THIS “Guide” admirably fulfils its functions; it is written in a clear style, and indicates tersely the main points of interest associated with the chief families and genera. The principal characters ...
Velvet worms as they are commonly known, are members of the Phylum Onychophora. Globally, 140 species are recognised. There are two living families of these soft bodied animals; the Peripatidae have ...
The phylum Onychophora contains the class Onychophorida. The creatures in this class are close relatives of the Arthropoda and Tardigrada, but do not have a hard exoskeleton. Access to some ...
The present distribution of the Onychophora, a group of terrestrial invertebrates, by Austin H. Clark ...
- enigmatic small elongated wormlike terrestrial invertebrates of damp dark habitats in warm regions; distinct from the phylum Annelida; resemble slugs with legs and are sometimes described as the ...
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