What's the difference between onychophoran and peripatus?

Onychophoran

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(n.) A genus of lowly organized arthropods, found in South Africa, Australia, and tropical America. It constitutes the order Malacopoda.

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(1) The excitation of Peripatus muscle is by local graded junctional potentials at distributed nerve-on-muscle fibre synapses, together with action potentials.
(2) Volumes and surfaces of the tracheal system in Peripatus acacioi Marcus and Marcus (Onychophora) were evaluated using stereological techniques.
(3) The nervous system of Peripatus is relatively simple in its organization, in the lack of glial intercellular junctions and in the ready accessibility of substances from the external milieu.
(4) In the CNS of Peripatus acacioi, beneath an outer acellular neural lamella, glial cells ensheath the cerebral ganglion and the nerve cords.
(5) The electrical and mechanical responses of body, leg and jaw muscle of Peripatus to electrical excitation of their motor-nerves were examined.
(6) The details of neuromuscular physiology are not compatible with the phylogenetic status commonly proposed for Peripatus.