Velvet Worms

Onychophora

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Onychophora (Velvet Worms) is a group of animals. There are 205 species of velvet worms, in 57 genera and 3 families. This group has been around since the Paleozoic Era. Velvet Worms includes groups like Southern Velvet Worms, Helenodoridae, and Peripatid Velvet Worms. They are predators. Reproduction is dioecious.

URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Paleozoic
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Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale

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URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q170430
Definition: Organism that obtains food by hunting

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URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148681
Definition: a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct male and female individual organisms.

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EOL has data for 7 attributes, including:

first appearance
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FossilFirst
- Definition: The first appearance of this taxon in the fossil record.
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541 million years ago
number of fossil occurrences
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/fossilOccPBDB
- Definition: The number of fossil occurrences in the Paleobiology Database (https://paleobiodb.org) that are identified as belonging to a particular taxon or any of its subtaxa.
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147
preyed upon by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002458
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Trimetopon slevini Dunn 1940 (Slevin's Tropical Ground Snake)
trophic guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TrophicGuild
- Definition: A group of species that exploit the same food resources, and/or use the same feeding or foraging methods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_(ecology)
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predator
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q170430
- Definition: Organism that obtains food by hunting
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Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of velvet worms. View this species on GBIF

velvet worms Habitats

The environments in which many velvet worms species are known to live. Select an environment to see its velvet worms species checklist.

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Velvet Worm Habitats

The environments in which many velvet worms species are known to live. Select an environment to see its velvet worms species checklist.

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