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- 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...
- living arthropod species. The males have the longer chelipeds; females have much shorter chelipeds, which are shorter than the following pair of legs....
- 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...
- legs (pereiopods) is elongated and very thin, ending in delicate claws (chelipeds), which are used as feeding appendages. The second pair of walking legs...
- 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...
- pereiopods which are armed with a claw (chela) may be referred to as chelipeds. The moveable fingers of a claw are known as dactyli. The pereiopods bear...
- 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...
- network of dark lines giving it the appearance of stained gl****. The chelipeds do not have the broad chelae (claws) typical of decapod crabs. Instead...
- with the carapace, legs and chelipeds bearing symmetrical brown to black stripes. The anterior carpus of the chelipeds are red, while the fingers are...
- 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...