Browsing Artículos científicos by Subject "GUSANO DE TERCIOPELO"

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    • An undescribed species of velvet worm from Chiapas, Mexico (Onychophora: Peripatidae) 

      Toledo-Matus, Xocoyotzin; Rivera Velázquez, Gustavo; Monge-Nájera, Julián; Morera-Brenes, Bernal (Universidad Estatal a Distancia (Costa Rica), 2018-06)
      Onychophoran worms are considered “living fossils” because their basic body structure has changed little in 500 million years. Only two species have been properly recorded from Mexico: Macroperipatus perrieri from ...

    • Oscillation of the velvet worm slime jet by passive hydrodynamic instability 

      Concha, Andres; mellado, paula; Morera, Bernal; Sampaio Costa, Cristiano; Mahadevan, Lakshminarayanan; Monge Nájera, Julián (Nature Communications, 2015-03-17)
      The rapid squirt of a proteinaceous slime jet endows velvet worms (Onychophora) with a unique mechanism for defence from predators and for capturing prey by entangling them in a disordered web that immobilizes their target. ...