Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>& babies develop inside their mother until large enough to be born, in batches of 4–6, as colourless miniatures of the parents! Peripatoides novaezealandiae is a species complex of velvet worms in the genus Peripatoides, found throughout NZ. My print was made based on photos of P. aurorbis, but all the P. novaezealandiae have no morphological characters that distinguish them.</p><p><a href="https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/19945769-blue-velvet-worm-on-raspberry-purple-by-minouette" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">spoonflower.com/en/fabric/1994</span><span class="invisible">5769-blue-velvet-worm-on-raspberry-purple-by-minouette</span></a></p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/pattern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pattern</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/surfaceDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surfaceDesign</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/invertebrates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>invertebrates</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/velvetWorm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>velvetWorm</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastoArt</span></a></p>