- 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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Syncyamus Bowman, 1955
Syncyamus aequus Lincoln & Hurley, 1981
Syncyamus chelipes (Costa, 1866)
Syncyamus ilheusensis Haney, De
Almeida & Reid, 2004 Syncyamus...
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moving its
cheliped forward until the
dactylus (top part of the claw) is
perpendicular with the ground. This
movement is
usually called an "
cheliped presentation"...
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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...
-
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...
- legs (pereiopods) is
elongated and very thin,
ending in
delicate claws (
chelipeds),
which are used as
feeding appendages. The
second pair of
walking legs...
- with the carapace, legs and
chelipeds bearing symmetrical brown to
black stripes. The
anterior carpus of the
chelipeds are red,
while the
fingers are...
- five
pairs of legs,
called pereopods: the
first and
anteriormost set are
chelipeds whose right side is
generally noticeably more
robust than the left; the...
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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....
- red. The
chelipeds are also banded, with the
right being bigger and
modified into a
powerful weapon. By
closing at
extreme speed, the
cheliped expels an...
