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Nail

A unit of length equivalent to 2.25 inches.
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Dactylus and unguis short, combined being 1/3 of the length of propodus.
A new polymorphic species of Leptochelia (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) from Guinea Bissau, West Africa, with comments on genetic variation within Leptochelia
Third to fifth pereopods moderately stout, similar in structure but slightly increasing in relative length from third to fifth; dactyli subconical, 0.3-0.4 length of propodi, each terminating in strong, curved corneous unguis, flexor surface with about ten corneous, distally curved, spinules arranged in three or four rows; propodi increasing in length from third to fifth, each with three or four spinules on ventrodistal margin and irregular two rows of spinules on ventral surface in third and fourth, with double row of spinules laterally and single row of sparse spinules mesially in fifth; carpi 0.7-0.9 length of propodi in third and fourth pereopods, 0.5-0.6 in fifth pereopod; meri and ischia unarmed.
Taxonomic review of the hydrothermal vent shrimp genera Rimicaris Williams & Rona and Chorocaris Martin & Hessler (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Alvinocarididae)
In pereiopod VII, despite gradual sequential immersion from the unguis to the 5th podite (Fig.
Water uptake via two pairs of specialized legs in Ligia exotica (Crustacea, Isopoda)
To quantify hoof size, two measurements were taken (Figure 1): 1) hoof length (HL) was defined as the linear distance from the tip of the dew claw to the tip of the medial unguis, and 2) hoof width (HW) was defined as the maximum width of the medial unguis.
Correlation of sex, age, and body mass with hoof size in white-tailed deer from the Piedmont Wildlife Refuge, Georgia
The ciliary feeding mechanisms of Lingula unguis (L.) (Brachiopoda).
Cornulitid epibionts on brachiopod shells from the Late Ordovician (middle Ashgill) of East China/Kornuliitidest epibiondid Ida-Hiina Ulem-Ordoviitsiumi kasijalgsetel
Ultrastructure and mineralization of the shell of Lingula unguis Linne (inarticulate brachiopod).
A new type of shell structure in a phosphatic brachiopod from the Cambrian of Estonia/Eesti Kambriumist parinevate fosfaatse kojaga kasijalgsete poolmete uus struktuurituup
Ra - + - Omalonyx unguis (d'Orb.) He + + - Littoridina guaranitica (Doering) Ra + + - Eupera platensis Doello-Jurado Cf - + - HIDRACARINA Sp.
Species richness and similarity between invertebrates living in floating plants in the parana river floodplain/Riqueza de especies y similaridad de los invertebrados que viven en plantas flotantes de la planicie de inundacion del rio Parana (Argentina)/Riqueza de especies e similaridade dos invertebrados que vivem em plantas flotantes da planicie de inundacao do rio parana (Argentina)
Etym XVI, 8, 3, in his list of "de rubris gemmis" where he explains how "Onyx appellata quod habeat in se permixtum candorem in similitudinem unguis humanae": the Plinian source is XXXVII, 90-91).
"Your dove-eyes among your hairlocks:" Language and authority in fray Luis de Leon's respuesta que desde su proision da a sus emulos (*)

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