CHELIPED
cheliped: translation
A pereiopod bearing a chela [Chace and Hobbs, 1969].
A pereiopod bearing a chela; in crayfishes, the first pereiopod [Hobbs, Hobbs, and Daniel 1977].
Any thoracopod bearing chela [McLaughlin, 1980].
Pereiopod bearing chela (see Figs. 13,14), in crafish literature applied almost exclusively to first pereiopod [Hobbs and Jass, 1988].
(Order Tanaidacea):
Modified second thoracopod (= first pereopod). Typically consists of only five segments (basis, merus, carpus, propodus, dactylus), with coxa and ischium being absent. (chelate, subchelate; symmetrical, asymmetrical). (Syn. chelipede) [Stachowitsch, 1992].
(Order Decapoda):
Any chela-bearing thoracopod; typically refers to first pair(s) of pereopods. (equal, unequal: major, minor) [Stachowitsch, 1992].