Peripatus

Description:

Description: English: Peripatus. A widely distributed old-fashioned type of animal, somewhat like a permanent caterpillar. It has affinities both with worms and with insects. It has a velvety skin, minute diamond-like eyes, and short stump-like legs. A defenceless, weaponless animal, it comes out at night, and is said to capture small insects by squirting jets of slime from its mouth. Date: 1922. Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20417/20417-h/20417-h.htm. Author: J. Arthur Thomson (1861–1933).