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Onychophora

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On`y`choph´o`ra
n. pl.1.(Zool.) Malacopoda.
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Noun1.Onychophora - 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 missing link between arthropods and annelids
class Onychophora
Arthropoda, phylum Arthropoda - jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes
onychophoran, peripatus, velvet worm - any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms
family Peripatidae, Peripatidae - a family of Onychophora
family Peripatopsidae, Peripatopsidae - a family of Onychophora
class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
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In most phyla, although simple photoreception is almost universally present, no eyes evolved, but eyes evolved later in Annelida, Mollusca, Onychophora, and Chordata.
Evolution: do the eyes have it? by Reinbold, Stephen L. / Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
Ancient lobopods and their modern counter-parts, in the phylum Onychophora, intrigue scientists because they may represent a link between two extremely successful phyla, Annelida (segmented worms) and Arthropoda.
Evolutionary oddball surfaces in Greenland by Monastersky, Richard / Science News
The connection between Hallucigenia and the unnamed Chengjiang animal has led the two researchers to draw Hallucigenia, as well as some other Cambrian oddities, into the fold of Onychophora.
Enigmas overturned by Chinese fossils by Monastersky, Richard / Science News
 
 
 
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