tarsi
- plural of tarsus.
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This force relies on the parasite’s highly adapted feet, called tarsi, which are equipped with toothed claws.
From Scientific American • Mar. 31, 2022
Lore with feathers; tarsi short and strong, naked or feathered; wings large, the fourth primary the longest.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.
Resembling No. 715, but darker and browner, with chest, etc., more distinctly speckled; wings and tail shorter; bill and tarsi longer; W. 2.6; T. 2.2.
From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.
The dorsum is uniformly grayish green with the only dorsal marks being on the tarsi; canthal and post-tympanic dark marks absent.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by Duellman, William E.
Many specimens have chiggers on the digits and tarsi.
From A Taxonomic Revision of the Leptodactylid Frog Genus Syrrhophus Cope by Lynch, John D.
