alula

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scalelike structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly

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tuft of small stiff feathers on the first digit of a bird's wing

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It was straight and slender, with a rounded outer lamella and a smaller triangular inner plate; rami had rounded alulae.
An overview of Synchaeta Ehrenberg, 1832 (Rotifera: Monogononta: Synchaetidae) species in the Eastern Gotland Basin, Baltic Sea, with complementary characteristics for the trophi of S. fennica Rousselet, 1902 and S. monopus Plate, 1889
En el espolon metacarpal proximal (el de mayor tamano) se insertan: Extensor digitorum comunis (pars alulae), Extensor metacarpi ulnaris, Abductor alulae, Adductor alulae, Flexor alulae y Extensor brevis alulae.
Adaptaciones musculares relacionadas a areas corporales que participan activamente en el vuelo de Anhima cornuta (Aves: Anseriformes, Anhimidae)
Manubria relatively narrow, with rounded alulae. Nepal is the type locality, but it is considered a warm stenoterm in all tropics (Segers 1995).
The Rotifer fauna of Guatemala and Belize: survey and biogeographical affinities
Five body regions were examined in each bird based on their importance in sexual displays, UV photography, and previous findings from other species of birds (33): the frons (blue forehead), the occiput (green nape), the tetriceces alulae dorsales (yellow alula), the pars pennacea of the first remiges primariae (dark-blue wing tip), and the tectrices caudales (green tail, middle portion).
Sexual dichromatism in the blue-fronted Amazon parrot (Amazona aestiva) revealed by multiple-angle spectrometry
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