Talk:Peripatus

Etymologists?

The article talks about "etymologists". These are people who study the meaning of words. Surely the article means to refer to "entomologists" - people who study insects?

Also, I believe Peripatus is resticted in its location to tropical rainforests, esp. north Australia. I will check and return to edit.

PatrickHadfield 16:59, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

The "etymologist" sentence had bigger problems: talking about a relationship between arthropods and worms makes little sense, as "worm" is a very general term. Maybe they meant a relationship between the arthropods and onychophora? Who knows. The text was vague enough that it is better to just remove it than to try to guess what was meant. Kingdon (talk) 15:54, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Fixing the confusion

This article was a mess, confusingly switching between the genus Peripatus and the name peripatus, which is applied to the Onychophora as a whole. The article for Onychophora is great, very comprehensive, so sending people there if at all possible would be an improvement. I've tried to clarify the difference throughout. Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 09:33, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Peripatus

These occur too in the South West of Western Australia, certainly in the Walpole Wilderness where we had a BioBlitz on 2/3 October 2021 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.206.126.66 (talk) 15:23, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

What's this about Australia? Both you and PatrickHadfield say this. It's clear from the article that these animals are from the Western Hemisphere, the American tropics. Perhaps you mean the Onychophora, the larger taxonomic group. Wastrel Way (talk) Eric