櫛蠶

櫛蠶(Peripatus亦可稱天鵝絨蟲黏液蟲等。陸生,外形像毛毛蟲,足多且成對,頭部有鬚,體表有環但不分節,兼具節肢動物環節動物的部分特徵,是有爪動物門的代表性生物。昆蟲學家認為櫛蠶是環節動物與節肢動物演進之間的連結。

櫛蠶屬
科学分类
界: 动物界 Animalia
门: 有爪动物门 Onychophora
纲: 有爪纲 Udeonychophora
目: 真有爪目 Euonychophora
科: 栉蚕科 Peripatidae
属: 栉蚕属 Peripatus
Guilding, 1826

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習性

櫛蠶是夜行性獵食動物。它會從頭部兩側的觸鬚噴出白色液體裹住獵物-通常是其他小昆蟲;液體一接觸空氣就會硬化,使得獵物無法掙脫;接著在以下顎在獵物的外骨骼上開洞,注入消化;最後吸食已半消化的獵物糜液。

種類

  • Peripatus basilensis Brues, 1935
  • Peripatus bouvieri Fuhrmann, 1913
  • Peripatus brolemanni Bouvier, 1899
  • Peripatus danicus Bouvier, 1900
  • Peripatus darlingtoni Brues, 1935
  • Peripatus dominicae Pollard, 1894
  • Peripatus evelinae (Marcus, 1937)
  • Peripatus haitiensis Brues, 1913
  • Peripatus heloisae Carvalho, 1941
  • Peripatus juanensis Bouvier, 1900
  • Peripatus juliformis Guilding, 1826
  • Peripatus lachauxensis Brues, 1935
  • Peripatus manni Brues, 1913
  • Peripatus ruber Fuhrmann, 1913
  • Peripatus sedgwicki Bouvier, 1899
  • Peripatus solorzanoi Morera-Brenes & Monge-Nájera, 2010, Solórzano's velvet worm
  • Peripatus swainsonae Cockerell, 1893
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