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Record 1 2002-05-16

English

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

The eighth segment of the walking leg ... located distally on the walking leg after the telotarsus.

OBS

[The pretarsus] bears the ungues and the dactyl.

OBS

Plural: pretarsi.

Key term(s)
  • pretarsi

French

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

Les métamères 2 à 16 [d'un Myriapode] portent chacun une paire de pattes ambulatoires courtes, simples, formées d'une série de 7 articles (hanche, trochanter, fémur, tibia, tarse et prétarse) [...]

CONT

Une patte comprend généralement les segments suivants : un coxa ou hanche; un trochanter; un fémur ou cuisse; un tibia ou jambe; un tarse à nombre variable d'articles et, à l'extrémité, un prétarse ou empodium ou acropode possédant habituellement une paire de griffes [...] et d'autres structures associées.

Spanish

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