peripatopsid

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peripatopsid (plural peripatopsids)

  1. (zoology) A velvet worm of the family Peripatopsidae.
    • 2016 October 12, Susannah Lydon, “How did the velvet worm cross the world? The answer lies in amber”, in The Guardian[1]:
      One group, the peripatopsids, are found exclusively on the continents which once formed the southern supercontinent Gondwana.