- 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...
- 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...
-
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"...
-
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...
- 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...
- legs (pereiopods) is
elongated and very thin,
ending in
delicate claws (
chelipeds),
which are used as
feeding appendages. The
second pair of
walking legs...
- posteriorly, more
rounded anteriorly, and
bristly laterally. The
first chelipeds are large. The
chela (claw)
length exceeds the
carapace length. The distal...
-
crabs may
drink water from
small puddles by
transferring it from
their chelipeds to
their maxillipeds. In
addition to the
branchiostegal lung, the coconut...
-
breathing tube that
allows oxygenated water down into the substrate. The
chelipeds of
males are much
longer than the body,
while those of
females are only...
