Definitions

Movable finger

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  Entire animal, right appendages omitted, dorsal view, based on Munida. [Baba, 2005]
  (Figure only.) [Baba, 2005]
• Dactyl of chela. [McLaughlin, 1980]
• Dactylus of chela. [Moore and McCormick, 1969]
• Distalmost podomere of segmented appendage.
  (syn. dactyl) [Hobbs and Jass, 1988]
• (Taxon-specific: Order Decapoda) Finger. [Stachowitsch, 1992]

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