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& retain yolky eggs in their uteri. The eggs are fertilized internally, & babies develop inside their mother until large enough to be born, in batches of 4–6, as colourless miniatures of the parents! Peripatoides novaezealandiae is a species complex of velvet worms in the genus Peripatoides, 🧵4/5

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found throughout NZ. This print is made based on photos of P. aurorbis, but all the Peripatoides novaezealandiae have no morphological characters that distinguish them.

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