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Velvet worms. Nice name, but what are they? Why are they in their own Phylum, the Onychophora? Where are they found and why have most people never heard of them, much less seen them? Velvet worms only occur in remnants of the ancient ecosystems such as those that once formed part of the supercontinent of Gondwana, so you must look in Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand plus the southern tip of Africa and parts of Central and South America to find them. They are small and usually live cryptic lives in the leaf litter of forests. However they are becoming better known as they have been introduced to the ‘exotic' pet trade.

There are two living groups of Onychophora, the Peripatidae in Africa, South America and parts of Asia, and the Paripatopsidae in the Australian region. They have been considered living fossils because they are similar to the ancestral segmented worms that developed legs and became the first arthropods. They are literally worms with legs.

Onychophora (o-ne-KO-fo-ra) is formed from two Greek roots that mean 'claw bearers' (claw -nichi (νύχι); and bearer -phoros (φόρος). The reference is to the small claws at the ends of the telescoping legs. INTRODUCTION TO THE ONYCHOPHORA The velvet worms. Mac OS Ogham (156 words) no match in snippet view article find links to article text on Apple Macintosh computers. It is a superset of the Irish Standard I. 434:1999 character encoding for Ogham (which is registered as ISO-IR-208).

I first discovered the group in my Invertebrate Zoology course in Canada many years ago. There were no onychophorans in Canada so when I moved to New Zealand, one of my goals was to see a living Velvet worm. I found my beast in the southern beech forests of Arthur's Pass, inland of Christchurch on the South Island. It was about 5 cm long, velvety black in colour with irridescent blue spiracles on the sides of its segmented body. It was rummaging around under a rotten log and it was an exciting find. I didn't see another one for twenty odd years but one day as I was walking in my forest in Australia, there was one on the ground, crawling along. That was exciting too. It was mottled brown in colour and its spiracles were grey.

This is an animal that gives us an idea of what must have happened long ago in the Cambrian Period. Worms evolved as the first predators of those ancient ecosystems. Some were able to come ashore and begin the colonisation of the land. Legs became a useful adaptation on the land and some of the early worms developed legs and then a hard exoskeleton. From there, these animals radiated out to become the vast, diverse and successful Phylum Arthropoda. But some of the original worms with legs survived. They survived against the competition with all the arthropods. They survived the great extinction events that wiped out the trilobites and then later the dinosaurs. They survived to the present time when we can look at them and marvel at the adaptations that led both to the modern Arthropods and the surviving Onychophora.

Velvet worms live in moist, dark habitats in the leaf litter of tropical and temperate forests and some grasslands. Two species are cave dwellers. The distinctive respiratory spiracles on their bodies cannot be closed so they must live in moist or humid conditions to avoid dessication. They are feisty little predators that attack insects, worms and spiders, millipedes and centipedes. They have a unique prey capture method: they hit them with glue secreted from slime glands. Then when the prey is immobilized, they hit it again with digestive juices and suck up the resultant liquids. In their turn, velvet worms are preyed upon by larger spiders, small mammals and birds.

Velvet worms have separate sexes and the females are generally larger than the males. Fertilisation is internal, with the male placing a spermatophore in the female. Young can be born live or laid as eggs. The young have to moult in order to grow and mature in less than a year. Life spans can be several years long.

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Velvet worms, like so many other animals, are threatened by human activities such as land clearing, swamp drainage and other habitat altering activities. Three species are already extinct and at least four more are endangered. It is to be hoped that with greater awareness of these unique animals, efforts will be made to save them. It would be a shame if, after surviving for up to five hundred million years, they became extinct because of humans.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onychophora

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http://www.answers.com/topic/onychophora-onychophorans-velvet-worms-and-peripatus-biological-family

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Common name: peripatus, velvet worm, Maori ngaokeoke.

Scientific name: phylum Onychophora Grube, 1853 — 'claw bearers'.

Description

Onychophorans are better known as peripatus, or velvet worms. The New Zealand peripatus are secretive, caterpillar-like animals, with soft, unsegmented body, velvety in appearance. They are 2.0-8.0 cm in length, slow-moving, with 13-16 pairs of soft stumpy legs.

Peripatus are usually coloured in dull shades of blue, green, grey or brown. Several New Zealand species are more brightly coloured, for example, Peripatoides indigo from the Nelson region is indigo-blue. The head bears a pair of large antennae and a pair of small oral papillae. Two tiny dark beady eyes are located near the bases of antennae. The name 'peripatus' is related to English 'peripatetic' (travelling), and originates from Greek 'peripatein' - 'to walk around', as these animals do with determination on their many stumpy legs.

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Velvet worms share a number of characteristics with both phylum Annelida (segmented worms) and phylum Arthropoda. Some authors place onychophorans in a subphylum within the phylum Arthropoda, but others (e.g., Nielsen 2001) regard the Onychophora as a separate phylum. https://slot-lion-machine-youslots-adw-fish-game.peatix.com. All species of peripatus described from New Zealand belong to two genera - Peripatoides (live-bearing peripatus) and Ooperipatellus (egg-laying peripatus).

Notes on biology

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Peripatus are voracious predators and feed on soil and litter arthropods (beetle larvae, crickets, spiders, termites, isopods, etc.), even on animals larger than themselves. Peripatus hunts by stalking the prey and immobilizing it with the transparent glue-like substance, which is squirted from the openings beside the mouth. This glue is extremely sticky, and soon entangles the prey. Peripatus then approaches and bites the prey, injecting it with digestive saliva; it can then suck out the liquified body tissues. Velvet worms themselves can be preyed upon by birds, lizards, large arthropods, and possibly rodents, although few observations of predation exist.

Similar to insects, peripatus breathe atmospheric air, which enters the body through spiracles - tiny openings in the body cuticle. Unlike insects, however, velvet worms cannot open or close the spiracles at will - the spiracles are always open, making these animals extremely vulnerable to dessication. The inability to control water loss restricts peripatus to damp, humid habitats.

Peripatus grows throughout its life, shedding the thin outer cuticle every few weeks. The shed cuticle is immediately eaten by its owner to recycle the nutrients. The Peripatoides novaezealandiae pictured on this page, as all members of the genus Peripatoides, is ovoviviparous - the eggs are retained by female until they hatch internally, and live young are then born. Other New Zealand species (all Ooperipatellus) are egg-layers. There is no larval stage, and young peripatus resemble miniature, light-coloured adults. Baby peripatus can be seen sometimes in aggregation close to their mother, but it is believed that there is no parental care in peripatus.

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Common name: peripatus, velvet worm, Maori ngaokeoke.

Scientific name: phylum Onychophora Grube, 1853 — 'claw bearers'.

Description

Onychophorans are better known as peripatus, or velvet worms. The New Zealand peripatus are secretive, caterpillar-like animals, with soft, unsegmented body, velvety in appearance. They are 2.0-8.0 cm in length, slow-moving, with 13-16 pairs of soft stumpy legs.

Peripatus are usually coloured in dull shades of blue, green, grey or brown. Several New Zealand species are more brightly coloured, for example, Peripatoides indigo from the Nelson region is indigo-blue. The head bears a pair of large antennae and a pair of small oral papillae. Two tiny dark beady eyes are located near the bases of antennae. The name 'peripatus' is related to English 'peripatetic' (travelling), and originates from Greek 'peripatein' - 'to walk around', as these animals do with determination on their many stumpy legs.

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Velvet worms share a number of characteristics with both phylum Annelida (segmented worms) and phylum Arthropoda. Some authors place onychophorans in a subphylum within the phylum Arthropoda, but others (e.g., Nielsen 2001) regard the Onychophora as a separate phylum. https://slot-lion-machine-youslots-adw-fish-game.peatix.com. All species of peripatus described from New Zealand belong to two genera - Peripatoides (live-bearing peripatus) and Ooperipatellus (egg-laying peripatus).

Notes on biology

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Peripatus are voracious predators and feed on soil and litter arthropods (beetle larvae, crickets, spiders, termites, isopods, etc.), even on animals larger than themselves. Peripatus hunts by stalking the prey and immobilizing it with the transparent glue-like substance, which is squirted from the openings beside the mouth. This glue is extremely sticky, and soon entangles the prey. Peripatus then approaches and bites the prey, injecting it with digestive saliva; it can then suck out the liquified body tissues. Velvet worms themselves can be preyed upon by birds, lizards, large arthropods, and possibly rodents, although few observations of predation exist.

Similar to insects, peripatus breathe atmospheric air, which enters the body through spiracles - tiny openings in the body cuticle. Unlike insects, however, velvet worms cannot open or close the spiracles at will - the spiracles are always open, making these animals extremely vulnerable to dessication. The inability to control water loss restricts peripatus to damp, humid habitats.

Peripatus grows throughout its life, shedding the thin outer cuticle every few weeks. The shed cuticle is immediately eaten by its owner to recycle the nutrients. The Peripatoides novaezealandiae pictured on this page, as all members of the genus Peripatoides, is ovoviviparous - the eggs are retained by female until they hatch internally, and live young are then born. Other New Zealand species (all Ooperipatellus) are egg-layers. There is no larval stage, and young peripatus resemble miniature, light-coloured adults. Baby peripatus can be seen sometimes in aggregation close to their mother, but it is believed that there is no parental care in peripatus.

Where to find them?

Peripatus are largely nocturnal and tend to avoid light. They are not uncommon, but seldom very numerous. They can be found in damp and secluded habitats — under stones, in rotting wood, under the bark of fallen logs, in leaf litter, most often in native forests, also in forest remnants on farmland, in city parks, and sometimes in gardens. Peripatus are best observed live in their environment, since they are relatively rare and several species are protected. After observing peripatus, make sure to place their home log or stone back into place.

Distribution and conservation

The velvet worms living today are classified into two families - the Peripatidae and the Peripatopsidae. The Peripatidae are found in tropical regions of Central and South America, South East Asia, and equatorial West Africa. The Peripatopsidae are known from South Africa, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and Chile. Beyond perception mac os. All species found in New Zealand belong to the family Peripatopsidae, five species are known since 1980s, recently S. Trevick described 4 more, and at least a few more are still undescribed. All ovoviviparous species (Peripatoides ssp.) are endemic to NZ, while the oviparous forms (Ooperipatellus ssp.) have close relatives in Australia (continent and Tasmania).

Peripatus are not uncommon in New Zealand, but are rarely found in large numbers (although Prof. H. Ruhberg once found hundreds in a rotten log near Wellington (Moonshine Saddle), and A. Harris found thousands in a Dunedin garden). In many areas populations of peripatus are threatened by the destruction of microhabitats resulting from forest clearance, trampling by livestock, removal of rotting logs for firewood, or fires. Overcollection is also a significant threat. Ooperipatellus viridimaculatis (Dendy, 1900) from the South Island (dark grey, with orange specks and a double row of green spots along the back) is considered to be a threatened species by the NZ Department of Conservation.

Included images:

Family Peripatopsidae

Peripatoides novaezealandiae - Ashurst Domain, WI, North Island (2 images)

Peripatoides novaezealandiae - Palmerston North, WI, North Island (2 images)

* - species exotic in NZ

Further information on New Zealand peripatus:

Bathurst, M., Morris, R., Schneider, M. 2000. Velvet underground. New Zealand Geographic 46, p. 58-75.

Gleeson, D. M. 1996. Onychophora of New Zealand; past, present and future. New Zealand Entomologist 19, p. 51-55.

Monge-Najera, J. 1995. Phylogeny, biogeography and reproductive trends in the Onychophora. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 114, p. 21-60.

Reid, A.L. 1996. Review of the Peripatopsidae (Onychophora) in Australia, with comments on peripatopsid relationships. Invertebrate Taxonomy 10, p. 663-936.

Ruhberg, H. 1985. Die Peripatopsidae (Onychophora): Systematik, Ökologie, Chorologie und phylogenetische Aspekte.- In F. Schaller (ed): Zoologica 137: 1-183. E. Schweitzerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart.

Trewick, S. A. 1998. Sympatric cryptic species in New Zealand Onychophora. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 63, p. 307-329.

Onychophora Resources on the Web:

New Zealand Onychophora, maintained by the N.Z. Landcare Research. Includes information on biology of New Zealand peripatus, description of currently recognized species, and the location guide.

Onychophora: The Velvet Worms, by Jean-Jacques Geoffroy, Centre International de Myriapodologie. Includes general information on onychophorans, bibliography, and the check-list of world fauna.

Jacuzzi rooms downtown detroit. Onychophora Homepage, by Mike Grieneisen, includes comprehensive bibliography on Onychophora, the e-mail directory of onychophoran enthusiasts, the link to Onychophora discussion group, and Web links.

Onychophora Online, by Julian Monge-Nágera, includes general information on Ohychophora, a photo gallery, a directory of people interested in Onychophora worldwide, and eight editions of Onychophora Newsletter.

Onychophora Website, by Dr. Georg Mayer. Includes general information, distribution and bibliography; richly illustrated.