Onychophora
Appearance
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Onychophora | |
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An Oroperipatus species | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Clade: | ParaHoxozoa |
Clade: | Bilateria |
Clade: | Nephrozoa |
(unranked): | Protostomia |
Superphylum: | Ecdysozoa |
(unranked): | Panarthropoda |
Phylum: | Onychophora Grube, 1853 |
Cless: | Udeonychophora Poinar, 2000 |
Subgroups | |
Order: Euonychophora
Order: †Ontonychophora
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Global range o Onychophora: extant Peripatidae in green, Peripatopsidae in reid, an fossils in black (click tae enlairge) |
Onychophora (frae the Auncient Greek, onyches, "claws"; an pherein, "tae cairy"), for ordinar kent as velvet wirms (acause o thair velvety textur an somewhit wirmlik appearance) or mair ambiguously as peripatus (efter the first descrived genus, Peripatus), is a phylum o elongate, saft-bodied, mony-leggit panarthropods.[1][2]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Holm, E.; Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. (2010). The Arthropods of Southern Africa. ISBN 978-0-7993-4689-3.[page needit]
- ↑ Prothero, D. R.; Buell, C. D. (2007). Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-231-13962-5.
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