Sentences with claspers
clasp·er
C c - No specimens with male claspers, either fully or partially developed, were detected.
- In males, the first two pairs of thoracic appendages are hooked and serve as claspers during mating.
- In a further effort to identify our specimens, we examined the left and right claspers from one of the male specimens.
- The claspers are assumed to function in copulation.
- Note that the ‘rudimentary legs’ on some snakes are acknowledged as having a function during reproduction, as claspers during copulation.