peripatus

A genus of myriapods, constituting the family Peripatidæ.

[lowercase] A species of this genus.

A genus of lowly organized arthropods, found in South Africa, Australia, and tropical America. It constitutes the order Malacopoda.

Any onychophoran of the genus Peripatus

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