Question

peripatus and neopilina are connecting link between annilida and arthopoda and what?

Answer 1

Answer:

yes peripatus is the connecting link between annelida and arthropoda because it possesses characters of both the phylas

Answer 2

Answer:

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.

Neopilina:

→It is a connecting connecting link between annelida and mollusca.

→It resembles molluscs as it possesses a shell, a mental and the large muscular foot.

→It's annelida characters are presence of segmentally arranged gills, nephridia and muscles and a trochophore like larval stage.