Scorpion

“Ventral view of a scorpion. Palamnaeus indus, de Geer, to show the arrangement of the coxae of the limbs, the sternal elements, genital plate and pectens. M, Mouth behind the oval median camerostome. I, The chelicerae. II, The chelae. III to VI, the four pairs of walking legs. VIIgo, The genital somite or first somite of the mesosoma with the genital operculum (a fused pair of limbs). VIIIp, the pectiniferous somite. IXstg to XIstg, the four pulmonary somites. met, the pentagonal metasternite of the prosoma behind all the coxae. x, the sternum of the pectiniferous somite. y, the broad first somite of the metasoma.” — The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910

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