what is the importance of peripatus?

Peripatusis an organism classified within the phylum Onychophora, a group known as "velvet worms" or "onychophorans" (meaning "claw-bearers"). These animals live mostly in humid forests, especially in the tropics. They hide by day under rotting logs and in leaf litter, and hunt for prey at night. The largest species is about 15 cm long. Velvet worms have between 14 and 43 pairs of stumpy, unjointed legs with claws at the tip

Onychophorans are able to capture even quite active animals such as grasshoppers by spraying a mucus-like substance up to half a meter from adhesive glands near their mouth. The sprayed substance hardens almost immediately on exposure to air, forming an extremely sticky meshwork that entangles the prey