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Definition of Pedipalps
1. pedipalp [n] - See also: pedipalp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pedipalps
Literary usage of Pedipalps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spider Book: A Manual for the Study of the Spiders and Their Near by John Henry Comstock (1912)
"The mouth cavity is situated between the base of the pedipalps, which form the
... The second of the two pairs of appendages of the head are the pedipalps. ..."
2. A Text-book of Invertebrate Morphology by James Playfair McMurrich (1896)
"Abdomen segmented but not differentiated ; no terminal spine ; pedipalps chelate ;
no abdominal appendages ; two pairs of stigmata opening into trachea* ..."
3. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"Body reddish- brown, with a distinct mid-dorsal stripe; pedipalps and legs brown
or black; length about 9 mm.; of pedipalps, 5 mm. long; length of legs, ..."
4. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1891)
"The pedipalps are leg-like, with large pincers. There are 4 pairs of book - leaf
tracheae (lungs), whose stigmata lie on the ventral side of the 3d to the ..."
5. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"The development of the limbs also takes place from before backward, but the
chelicerae are remarkably late in developing (Fig. 4 C). When the pedipalps are ..."
6. Outlines of Zoology by John Arthur Thomson, Marion Isabel Newbigin (1906)
"The leg-like, usually six-jointed, non-chelate pedipalps, whose basal joint helps
in mastication, while the terminal joint in the male ..."
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