Onychophora

Translingual

Euperipatoides kanangrensis

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὀνυχοφόρος (onukhophóros, “having claws”) [ὄνυχος (ónukhos, “claw”) + φέρειν (phérein, “to bear”)].

Proper noun

Onychophora

1. A taxonomic phylum within the superphylum Protostomia – the velvet worms.

Hypernyms

• (phylum): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa - superphylum

Hyponyms

• (phylum): Udeonychophora - sole class; Euonychophora - sole order

Further reading

• Onychophora on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Onychophora on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Onychophora on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Onychophora at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Onychophora at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Onychophora at the Tree of Life Web Project
• Onychophora available from http://www.irmng.org at VLIZ.03 Rees, T. (compiler) (2017). The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248