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- n. In crustaceans, the seventh and last (distal) segment of a limb; a dactylus. It is the last segment of a developed endopodite, succeeding the propodite, forming in a chelate limb, as of the lobster, with a process of the propodite, the nippers or pincers of the claw. See cut under
endopodite .
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“The chelæ were measured from the inner angle of the joint of the protopodite to the angle of articulation with the dactylopodite.”
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