Figure 5. Mouth openings of A. angulatus
female and A. pygmaeus male showing different morphologies. Dorsal side
up. (A) Frontal view of A. angulatus mouth opening showing the chelifores
with developed chela. Scale 40 µm. (B) A. angulatus Y-shaped mouth
opening showing absence of any fringing seta, microtrichia or papillae. Scale
20 µm. (C) A. pygmaeus mouth opening showing a few microtrichia
fringing the lips. Scale 20 µm. (D) A. angulatus dorsal chelifores with
palps absent. Scale 20 μm. Abbreviations: chela (ch), chelifore (cf), fixed
finger (ff), movable finger (mf), mouth (mo), palp (pa), proboscis (pr), teeth
(te). Images D; A, B, C adapted from Dietz et al. (2018); Lehmann et al. (2014).
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