- Neo-Latin chela. The
plural form is chelae. Legs
bearing a
chela are
called chelipeds.
Another name is claw
because most
chelae are
curved and have a sharp...
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living arthropod species. The
males have the
longer chelipeds;
females have much
shorter chelipeds,
which are
shorter than the
following pair of legs....
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variation called the "
cheliped extension", is
usually a
purely visual movement,
though it may
sometimes be used to
strike a crab. The
chelipeds move
forward and...
- legs (pereiopods) is
elongated and very thin,
ending in
delicate claws (
chelipeds),
which are used as
feeding appendages. The
second pair of
walking legs...
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bright blue in
color with
white spots and with
characteristically long
chelipeds,
while the
females have a
duller green/brown, with a more
rounded carapace...
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extending from
their fronts, and the
chelipeds are more
robust in
males than in females,
which have more
elongated chelipeds. The
bodies of the
female pea crabs...
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original on 5
April 2005. "What Is the
Difference Between Walking Legs and
Chelipeds in Crayfish?". Pets on Mom.com.
Retrieved 12 June 2021. O'Brien, Brett...
- its new
habitat along the
Atlantic coast of the
United States: feeding,
cheliped morphology and growth". In Schram,
Frederick R.; Klein, J. C. von Vaupel...
- its name), and Mecochirus,
mostly with
elongated (often semichelate)
chelipeds. This
group of
decapods is a good
example of a
living fossil, or a lazarus...
- of the
chelipeds and
lacks black tips. The
graceful rock crab (Metacarcinus gracilis) has a
single projection on the
dorsal side of the
chelipeds and also...
