Dactyli each with two corneous spines on ventral margin, distal spine much larger than proximal; terminal claws bifurcated, ventral claw distinctly larger than dorsal.
Ambulatory legs (pereiopods 2-5) covered with very short, coarse hair, scarcely visible;
dactyli strong, curved, and with a sharp claw.
Pereopods 1-4 with long
dactyli, those of pereopods 5-7 smaller.
(But the variation in these accounts is so small that, whereas some represent the Corybantes, the Cabeiri, the Ideaean
Dactyli, and the Telchines as identical with the Curetes, others represent them as all kinsmen of one another and differentiate only certain small matters in which they differ in respect of one another ...; translation Jones, with modifications).
Dactylis hispanica:
Dactylis glomerata subsp.hispanica
Dactyli of P2-P5 slightly curved at tip, relative length 3 > 4 > 2 > 5, those of P3 subequal to or longer than respective propodi.
1H) all of about same size and similar structure; all articles distinct,
dactyli reduced, their short tips inserted into cuplike receptacles produced on anterolateral corners of propodi; distal ends of meri sparsely setose; bases lacking carinae.
Third to fifth pereopods moderately stout, notably decreasing in length from third to fifth;
dactyli subconical, 0.4-0.5 length of propodi, each terminating in strong, curved corneous unguis, flexor surfaces with numerous slender corneous spinules arranged in three or four rows (Fig.
Most larger food particles are picked up by the long chelipeds and passed to the Mxp3 endopods, both of which extend to grasp the food between their
dactyli and propodi.