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animals who spit slime to trap prey, somewhere between worms and arthropods. Like an arthropod their heads have segments but otherwise they have wormlike bodies. They have flexible wormlike skin but like insect skeleton in composition. They have insect-like limbs, but they are unjointed & conical 🧵2
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Ele Willoughby
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in shape. They look like caterpillars who don't become butterflies. The two extant families of velvet worms are Peripatidae and Peripatopsidae. And amongst the latter there are some in the genus Peripatoides which exhibits lecithotrophic ovoviviparity; that is, mothers in this genus produce 🧵3/n
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