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  1. Peripatus is a connecting link between:
    1. Mollusca and Echinodermata
    2. Annelida and Arthropoda
    3. Coelenterata and Porifera
    4. Ctenophora and Platyhelminthes
Correct Option: 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.



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