Euonychophora

Euonychophora
Peripatoides, a Peripatopsid
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Onychophora
Class: Udeonychophora
Order: Euonychophora
Hutchinson, 1930

Euonychophora is an order of Onychophoran representing all living onychophora; the Peripatidae and Peripatopsidae, as well as the fossil †Cretoperipatus. Their feet possess a pair of claws and a pad, and are covered with pustules.[1]

References

  1. Poinar, G. Jr. (2000). "Fossil Onychophorans from Dominican and Baltic Amber: Tertiapatus dominicanus n.g., n.sp. (Tertiapatidae n.fam.) and Succinipatopsis balticus n.g., n.sp. (Succinipatopsidae n.fam.) with a Proposed Classification of the Subphylum Onychophora". Invertebrate Biology. 119 (1): 104–9. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7410.2000.tb00178.x.


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