**Advice for Onychophora**
1. A ventral image is helpful for ID, and usually neccessary for determining sex.
2. *Peripatus* (genus) ≠ peripatus (phylum). If outside Central America, it is definitely not the former.
3. For ID to family use <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Onychophora_global_distribution_map.jpg">the global distribution map</a>. You can help resolve <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?lrank=order&place_id=any&taxon_id=51836">community IDs stuck above family</a>.
4. For ID to genus or species <a href="https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=2951">Oliveira et al. (2012)</a> is a good starting point, but use with caution, considering narrow-range endemism and undescribed cryptic species. Do not guess or rely on Computer Vision.
**Advice for Onychophora**
1. A ventral image is helpful for ID, and usually neccessary for determining sex.
2. *Peripatus* (genus) ≠ peripatus (phylum). If outside Central America, it is definitely not the former.
3. For ID to family use <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Onychophora_global_distribution_map.jpg">the global distribution map</a>. You can help resolve <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?lrank=order&place_id=any&taxon_id=51836">community IDs stuck above family</a>.
4. For ID to genus or species <a href="https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=2951">Oliveira et al. (2012)</a> is a good starting point, but use with caution, considering narrow-range endemism and undescribed cryptic species. Do not guess or rely on Computer Vision.