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- Entomology. CAB International. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-85199-655-4. Dean Pentcheff. "Cheliped". Crustacea glossary. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Archived...
- 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"...
- teeth are stronger, the subdistal tooth on the merus of the cheliped is stronger and the cheliped is smoother dorsally; the carpus of the walking legs lacks...
- the anterior carapace. The gape in the major cheliped is more serrate and the gape in the minor cheliped is slightly wider. Crane, Jocelyn (1975). Fiddler...
- 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...
- legs (pereiopods) is elongated and very thin, ending in delicate claws (chelipeds), which are used as feeding appendages. The second pair of walking legs...
- legs brown or dark brown. Major cheliped with fingers white in adults and orange in young. Females with orange cheliped with blue tinge. Carapace of male...
- 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...
- pereiopods which are armed with a claw (chela) may be referred to as chelipeds. The moveable fingers of a claw are known as dactyls. The pereiopods bear...