Peripatoides indigo is a species of peripatus in the Peripatopsidae family.

Peripatus shows no external segmentation; the legs are not jointed like arthropod legs, although they possess arthropod-like claws.

A very similar land animal, the velvet worm, Peripatus still exists lives in the tropics including the rainforest in Queensland, Australia.

This rules out Limulus, Peripatus, Latimeria, Sphenodon, Didelphis, the platypus, and many others.

His contribution to the division of the phylum arthropoda into two parts, one including insecta, myriapoda, and peripatus, and the other including trilobites, crustacea, and arachnids, is considered to be an important contribution to zoology.

There are about 70 species, in two families: the Peripatidae (including the genus Peripatus), which are viviparous with a placenta or a yolked egg which develops inside the body; and the Peripatopsidae which are oviparous or at least lack a placenta.

'Peripatus' are native to scattered places around the world including New Zealand, Costa Rica Onychophora Online: velvet worms, peripatus, living fossils, by Julian Monge Najera and other countries, but not in Europe or Antarctica.

Purchased by the Dunedin City Council in 1994 with the assistance of the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, it is home to various native bird and invertebrate species, including one species of Peripatus (velvet worm) believed to be endemic to the Dunedin area.

In the bush are many indigenous invertebrates, including kauri snail, weta and oviparous peripatus (Onychophora or velvet worms) with 14 pairs of legs, and ovoviviparous species of 15 and 16 pairs of legs, none of which are members of any of the five scientifically described New Zealand species.