General organization of peripatus
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External Morphology of Peripatus: The body of Peripatus is caterpillar-like. It is soft, elongated, bilaterally symmetrical and more or less cylindrical and ranges from 1.4 cm to 15.00 cm in length. The external segmentation is indistinct and marked only by the presence of paired appendages.
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Peripatus:
→ Peripatus is An arthropod and is a connecting link between annelida and arthropoda.
→It's arthropod characters include haemocoel, tracheae as respiratory organs and tubular heart with Ostia.
→The annelid characters exhibited are the worm like body, structure of the eyes, unjointed legs, presence of segmental nephridia, soft cuticle and continuous muscle layer in the body wall.
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