Dactylus

"Dactylus" in a Sentence (4 examples)

The distal end of the club, the dactylus (finger), is pointed and attenuated but is covered with hundreds of small suckers.

[…] suckers of carpus and dactylus portions small […]

The tip of the dactylus is short and hooked, with a scoop-shaped depression on the anterior surface.

Pereiopod 1 […] dactylus with 3 pointed processes on posterior margin (Fig. 2g).

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