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Onychophora / ɒ n ɪ ˈ k ɒ f ə r ə / (from Ancient Greek: ονυχής, onyches, "claws"; and φέρειν, pherein, "to carry"), commonly known as velvet worms (for their velvety texture and somewhat wormlike appearance) or more ambiguously as peripatus / p ə ˈ r ɪ p ə t ə s / (after the first described genus, Peripatus), is a phylum of elongate, soft-bodied, many-legged animals.
The worm has 21 segments and 16 of them bear chaetae (the bristled setae of polychaetes). The face is somewhat flattened. The body is cylindrical, but tapers slightly toward the posterior end. In life, the worm is transparent, with ring-shaped integument (scaly ridges) along the back, and discontinuous brown stripe markings.
Alitta succinea (known as the pile worm, clam worm or cinder worm) [3] is a species of marine annelid in the family Nereididae (commonly known as ragworms or sandworms). [4] It has been recorded throughout the North West Atlantic, as well as in the Gulf of Maine and South Africa .
Chaoborus is a genus of midges in the family Chaoboridae.The larvae are known as glassworms because they are transparent.They can be found commonly in lakes all over the world and can be up to 2 cm (0.8 in).
Gongylonema pulchrum was first named and presented with its own species by Molin in 1857. The first reported case was in 1850 by Dr. Joseph Leidy, when he identified a worm "obtained from the mouth of a child" from the Philadelphia Academy (however, an earlier case may have been treated in patient Elizabeth Livingstone in the seventeenth century [2]).
In the same family as the cross-striped cabbage worm beetle, the handsome fungus beetle (Endomychus coccineus) showcases black markings in dot rather than cross formation. The larvae also feed on fungi and are brown in color. The segmented back features lobe-like projections along the edges of the segments.
Agrotis ipsilon, the dark sword-grass, ipsilon dart, black cutworm, greasy cutworm or floodplain cutworm, is a small noctuid moth found worldwide. [2] The moth gets its scientific name from black markings on its forewings shaped like the letter "Y" or the Greek letter upsilon . [ 3 ]
Arenicola, also known as sandworms, is a genus of capitellid annelid worms comprising the lugworms and black lugs. [1] ... A lug-worm with its grey and muddy mouth