onychophoran

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any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms

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The onychophoran bites into the prey and injects saliva, which further reduces motion and initiates digestion of the prey item's innards. Source: Internet

Onychophora eat their dried slime when they can, which is appropriate, because it takes an onychophoran about 24 days to replenish an exhausted slime repository. Source: Internet

If they are judged to be a suitable size, slime is ejected to immobilise the prey item. citation The most energetically favourable prey are two-fifths the size of the hunting onychophoran. Source: Internet

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