Evolution Question 26
26. Peripatus is a connectinglink between:
(a) Mollusca and Echinodermata
(b) Annelida and Arthropoda
(c) Coelenterata and Porifera
(d) Ctenophora and Platyhelminthes
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Answer : b
Hints & Solution
(b) Peripatus is a genus of Onychophora (Velvet worms). It is said to be a living fossil because it has been unchanged for approximately 570 million years. Peripatus is a nocturnal carnivore. Peripatus is a connecting link between Annelida and Arthropoda. It feeds by trapping its prey (mostly small insects) in a white, sticky fluid it ejects from two antennae near its head. The fluid hardens on contact with the air and then the prey becomes immoblized.
