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Sentences with claspers

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  • 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.
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