Invertebrate
Velvet Worm
Slime-shooting living fossil of leaf litter
Family Peripatidae
Peripatidae is a taxonomic family in the order Euonychophora, class Onychophora. Global Animal Guide profiles one of its members: Velvet Worm.
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