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Peripatus: Its Affinities and Its Cuticle

1975; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 190; Issue: 4214 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1126/science.190.4214.582

1095-9203

R.H. Hackman, Mary Goldberg,

The cuticle of Peripatoides leuckarti is arthropodan in structure and in chemical composition. The cuticular protein resembles that of other arthropods; it is not a collagen. This peripatus cuticle has no affinities with the annelid cuticles.