Complex sentence: The species name was given after a Japanese animated film "My Neighbor Totoro" because the velvet worm looks somewhat like the multi-legged cat that runs as a bus (Catbus) in the film.
Split into simpler sentences: The species name was given after a Japanese animated film "My Neighbor Totoro". Because the velvet worm looked somewhat like the multi-legged cat that runs as a bus (Catbus) in the film.