Onychophora

Onychophora; Temporal range: Cenomanian–present PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
	An Oroperipatus species
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Clade:	ParaHoxozoa
Clade:	Bilateria
Clade:	Nephrozoa
(unranked):	Protostomia
Superphylum:	Ecdysozoa
(unranked):	Panarthropoda
Phylum:	Onychophora; Grube, 1853
Cless:	Udeonychophora; Poinar, 2000
Subgroups
	Order: Euonychophora Faimily: Peripatidae Faimily: Peripatopsidae Order: †Ontonychophora Faimily: †Helenodoridae Superfaimily: †Tertiapatoidea Faimily: †Tertiapatidae Faimily: †Succinipatopsidae
	Global range o Onychophora: extant Peripatidae in green, Peripatopsidae in reid, an fossils in black (click tae enlairge)

Onychophora (frae the Auncient Greek, onyches, "claws"; an pherein, "tae cairy"), for ordinar kent as velvet wirms (acause o thair velvety textur an somewhit wirmlik appearance) or mair ambiguously as peripatus (efter the first descrived genus, Peripatus), is a phylum o elongate, saft-bodied, mony-leggit panarthropods.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ Holm, E.; Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. (2010). The Arthropods of Southern Africa. ISBN 978-0-7993-4689-3.^{[page needit]}
↑ Prothero, D. R.; Buell, C. D. (2007). Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-231-13962-5.

[1] Holm, E.; Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. (2010). The Arthropods of Southern Africa. ISBN 978-0-7993-4689-3.^{[page needit]}

[Prothero-2] Prothero, D. R.; Buell, C. D. (2007). Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-231-13962-5.

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