Definitions

Chelate

• An appendage in which the movable dactylus is apposed to an equally well-developed distal prolongation of the propodus. [Ingle, 1980]
• Bearing a chela. [Butler, T. H.]
• Bearing chela (chelae). [Moore and McCormick, 1969]
• Pincer-like condition in which dactylus closes against fixed forward projection of propodus. [Holdich and Jones, 1983]
• Pincerlike. [McLaughlin, 1980]
• The dactyl and distal part of the propodus of a pereiopod forming a pinching claw. [Ingle, 1992]
• (Taxon-specific: Order Isopoda) Having a chela; modified to form a pincer. [Kensley and Schotte, 1989]
• (Taxon-specific: Order Isopoda) Having a chela; the propodus and dactylus forming a pincerlike structure wherein the latter articulates submedially on the former to produce a "moveable and fixed finger" arrangement. (True chelae are extremely rare in isopods.). [Wetzer et al. 1997]

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