Velvet Worm (Peripatus)

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    This velvet worm was photographed during a JCU field trip to Mt. Zero/Taravale Reserve, near the town of Paluma, Queensland, Australia.

    Stephen Mahony, s13_eisbaer, Christine cannot access new website properly, viridovipera, and 38 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    1. Heleioporus 32 months ago | reply

      Wow cracking shot, gotta love the Peripatus.

    2. bushcritters 32 months ago | reply

      Thats amazing!

    3. Stephen Mahony 32 months ago | reply

      Amazing shot, I have only ever seen one velvet worm and I dropped it before even getting a good look, amazing detail in this picture.

    4. Christine cannot access new website properly 32 months ago | reply

      What an incredible creature! What size are they?

    5. Stephen Zozaya 32 months ago | reply

      This one and most of the others we found were about 4cm I'd say.

    6. HyperViper 32 months ago | reply

      Really nice image.
      Looks like a cuddly version of a centipede.

    7. kierobau 32 months ago | reply

      i thought i was looking under water???

    8. ozzieimages 32 months ago | reply

      This is amazing Stephen, did not know anything like this existed, superb...

    9. viridovipera 32 months ago | reply

      Amazing shot, one of my absolute favourite invertebrate animals!

    10. Brissy Girl - Jan 32 months ago | reply

      Fantastic capture, Thanks for sharing - I didn't even know they existed until I saw your photo.

    11. Oriolus84 32 months ago | reply

      Wow, amazing. Would love to be able to see one of them. Was this just on the grassy area around the Mount Zero homestead?

    12. Stephen Zozaya 32 months ago | reply

      This particular one was under some sleepers next to the shed at the homestead.

    13. Sam Martin (abikeOdyssey) 32 months ago | reply

      wow, very cool find!

    14. aardvaarkau 30 months ago | reply

      What a beauty! I'd love to see one of these!

    15. Elena Krasnova 25 months ago | reply

      Dear Stephen,

      My name is Elena Krasnova, I am researcher working for the White Sea Biological Station of Lomonosov Moscow State University. I am preparing a popular scientific article about invertebrate silks for Russian magazine "Priroda" (translated as "Nature").

      I need some pictures to illustrate velvet worms, and I'd like to use this picture.

      Could you, please, allow me to use your pictures, or some other ones with the onychphores with their spittle? If it is possible send me, please, files with high resolution.

      Write me please directly to e_d_krasnova@wsbs-msu.ru

      Sincerely, Elena Krasnova,
      PhD, researcher,
      WSBS, MSU,
      e_d_krasnova@wsbs-msu.ru
      +7(903)151-74-05

    16. Robert1196 23 months ago | reply

      Pretty!

    17. sarimoo 17 months ago | reply

      They are the best :) Very old... haven't changed in the past 500 millions years I hear :) <3

    18. plant.nerd 10 months ago | reply

      I have never managed to see one of these also a great shot

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