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Record 1 1990-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
OBS

[spiders & scorpions] Their most characteristic feature is that the first pair of appendages are not antennae but chelicerae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
DEF

Anthropode pourvu d'une seule paire d'appendices préoraux, les chélicères, d'une deuxième paire d'appendices postoraux, les pédipalpes et dont la région antérieure du corps, ou prosoma, n'a pas son équivalent chez les autres arthropodes.

Spanish

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