"Name that Animal" picture game.

Name this one:

Giant Burrowing Cockroach.. Macropanesthia rhinoceros. It reminded me of the Madagascar Hissing Cockroach when I first saw it, but it has a more curved body type. But my cockroach search brought up your exact image.

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If you can name the phylum for this one, you'll be over half way to identifying it.

is that on land?

Yup. A land animal.

Clues: It's not a worm and it's not an insect. It lives primarily in the southern hemisphere, in moist rainforrest type conditions.

I'm going to venture that it is a gastropod, perhaps of the genus praticolella--i.e, it's a form of land snail.

Good guess, but no. Not a gastropod, not a snail or a slug.

They are long-bodied invertebrates, roughly 0.6-5.9 in (1.5-15 cm) in length, and while they may resemble worms they have several features not present in any annelid. For example, they have between 14-43 pairs of "legs", much like the false legs of a caterpillar. However, unlike caterpillars, or any other arthropod for that matter, these animals lack a chitinous exoskeleton. Instead, their body is covered with a thin, flexible cuticle that is not water resistant. This skin is usually blue, orange, green, black, or white in colour, and is covered with scaly tubercles and sensory hairs.

The short, claw-tipped, hollow "legs" are kept rigid by hydrostatic pressure, as they lack muscles. The "legs" are not joined together. Locomotion is acquired through changes in hydrostatic pressure within the body, which causes the leg pairs to rise in waves while the body is contracted. This movement resembles that of a caterpillar.

Here's another picture.

Man, that's a weird creature. I spent an hour searching this morning.....

well look where gogle took me whilst lookin for this critter

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=632692#632692

Good going Dadpad!

Yeh, it's a weird one. A completely unique phylum.

Like your spider, I believe I posted something on this creature on another A2K thread, so one place to look might be A2K itself.

I've never seen one of these creatures live before. They only live in the southern hemisphers, and the only time I spent below the Equator was in Indonesia, and that was on business, so I didn't have time to wander around the forrest looking for these little beasts. They say the skin on these "worms" feels like Velvet, but I wouldn't know.

I did see a pretty big cockroach in Indonesia however. We were unpacking a box containing a computer monitor, and somehow, a cockroach with a 5" body and 8" antennae got into the box. It was HUGE. I remember its legs making a scratching sound on the box which I could hear across the room. The Indonesian porters were amused by it, but the Americans were in shock.

More pics...

Oops, so much for my creative clues. While I was writing it, DadPad figured it out.

Onychophoran is correct. You're up Dadpad.

How about this fella (hanging over the stick)

Giant Earthworm, Rio De Janeiro.

I'm headed off to bed. Someone please take my turn. Dadpad, go again if you like.

Good night everyone.

That was a fast round!

that was too easy wasnt it. Giant earthworms also occor in the Gippsland area of Victoria Australia. I have encountered them sometimes during my work. They growl as they slide back into their holes when you walk near them. Quite a startling sound the firat time you hear it.

ok possibly another easy one.

it's a nudibranch, yes? But, what kind....?

nudibranch = yes k there are too many kinds for me to want to narrow it down but I believe its from the Sth Island of New zealand.

I saw some very colourfull versions whislst diving on the great barrier reef some years ago, they were absoutly one of the most interestingly beautiful creatures I have ever seen!

go ahead and narrow it down if you wish or post another creature, you choose