chelicera

Japanese: chelicera
chelicera

…The first walking leg (cheliped) of crabs and crayfish and the second leg (pedipalp) of scorpions often form particularly powerful pincers. In horseshoe crabs, the first leg (chelicera) and the second to fifth legs (walking legs), in spiders and scorpions, the first leg (chelicera), in tanaids, the second thoracic leg, and in shrimps, the first to third walking legs form pincers. In the fifth walking leg of spiny lobsters, the first walking leg of shrimps, and the maxillae of amphipods, the distal digit of the next segment is not developed, and the distal segment interlocks with the enlarged distal edge of the next segment, which is called a subchela. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "chelicera" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…カニ類,ザリガニ類の第1歩脚(鉗脚(かんきやく)cheliped)やサソリ類の第2肢(脚鬚(きやくしゆ)pedipalp)は,とくに強大なはさみを形成することが多い。カブトガニ類では第1肢(鋏角(きようかく)chelicera)および第2~5肢(歩脚),クモ類,サソリ類でも第1肢(鋏角),タナイス類では第2胸肢,クルマエビ類では第1~3歩脚がはさみになるなど,種類により異なる付属肢ではさみが形成されている。イセエビ類の第5歩脚,エビジャコ類の第1歩脚,端脚類の顎脚(がつきやく)などでは,次節末端の不動指が発達せず,末端節は次節の拡大した末端縁との間でかみ合うようになっており,擬鉗subchelaと呼ばれる。…

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