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Record 1 1996-01-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Crustaceans
CONT

Spider crabs have a pair of chelae (pincerlike front legs) that in decorating species serve to gather material and attach it to hooked setae: minute curved bristles found on the sides of the carapace ... on the rostrum ... on the back of the long slender walking legs and sometimes on the back of chelae themselves.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Crustacés
CONT

Les Araignées de mer possèdent une paire de chélipèdes (pattes antérieures terminées par une pince) servant, chez les espèces qui se déguisent, à saisir et fixer certains matériaux sur des crochets; ces crochets sont de minuscules poils recourbés situés sur les côtés de la carapace [...] sur le rostre [...] sur les longues pattes locomotrices et dans certains cas, sur les chélipèdes.

Spanish

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