- 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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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...
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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...
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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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Syncyamus Bowman, 1955
Syncyamus aequus Lincoln & Hurley, 1981
Syncyamus chelipes (Costa, 1866)
Syncyamus ilheusensis Haney, De
Almeida & Reid, 2004 Syncyamus...
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teeth may be missing.
There is a ****ual
dimorphism in the form of the
cheliped (claw-bearing appendage):
females have a "deep crescent-shaped depression"...
- 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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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...
- 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...
