Green Sea Turtles as hatchlings weigh about an ounce and have a carapace length of 2 inches. |
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Ostracods shed the carapace with each molt, whereas the conchostracans simply add material to the carapace as they grow. |
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The hard carapace or upper shell of some sea turtles acts as a protection from predators. |
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The fusion of the cephalic segments is most obvious when a cephalic shield or carapace is present. |
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Naupli have a cephalic shield or the beginnings of the dorsal carapace, and no segmentation on the trunk. |
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It had a smooth carapace, like a beetle, and a triangular shaped head with two huge bug eyes atop each corner. |
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In modern lobsters, the carapace material is partially resorbed prior to molting, making the carapace thin and weak. |
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During each molt the animal calcifies a new carapace of about twice the volume of the previous one. |
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The carapace of this appealing side-necked turtle is a medium to charcoal gray color with no design. |
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Nearly all the illustrated species in standard monographic works are less than 3 cm in carapace width. |
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Embryos are brooded in the mother's carapace and hatch out as miniature Daphnia, rather than as nauplii. |
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Although differences in carapace morphology were apparent, vortical flow patterns around the four boxfishes were fairly consistent. |
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The taxon is unique among brachyurans due to its distinctive dorsal carapace ornamentation. |
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It is as if all that running around is a smoke-screen, a dazzling distraction to hide the hard and unyielding carapace. |
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The two-part, hinged carapace encloses the entire body, similar to the branchiopod Conchostraca. |
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The mantis shrimp's elongate, jointed carapace sports stalked eyes, the most complex in the animal kingdom. |
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Anterior margin of carapace slightly acuminate with less obtuse cardinal angle than posterior margin. |
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Only crabs with more than 95 percent of the dorsal carapace exposed were selected. |
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The dorsal carapace, as far as is known to the authors, has never been described from the fossil record. |
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In general, the morphology of the carapace of the type species is more subtle than that exhibited on the new species. |
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Both specimens are probably molts, as only the dorsal carapace is preserved. |
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With such scathing one-liners Steers gives his film a hard carapace of irony. |
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The carapace of these turtles lacks scutes and is covered instead with a leathery skin. |
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But what emerged from the dustbin, like a tortoise from its carapace, wasn't aggressive. |
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The narrow border of the carapace is visible, especially at the anterior and dorsal margins. |
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It exhibits the ventral side of the body but the carapace is removed and dorsally visible. |
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These genera have well-ornamented carapaces that exhibit carapace width and length ratios that differ from the other genera within the family. |
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In the performance of this task, at last the hard carapace of my resistance broke apart. |
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The carapace is used for protection and so a new shell is usually grown under the old in order for the organism to be shielded at all times. |
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In some species, the carapace is domed, while most have a low-arching carapace. |
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The stinkpot turtle gets its name from the foul smelling secretions it releases from musk glands under the border of the carapace. |
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For centuries hawksbills have been hunted for their carapace, the natural source of tortoiseshell. |
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Morning light streams in through a thinly sliced piece of Indian onyx set in the east wall, in the unrendered concrete carapace. |
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Within this order, incubation of eggs is effected in brood chambers formed by the carapace, except in laying resting eggs. |
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When not gravid, eggs lining the ovotestes are readily seen through the carapace. |
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The shell of the common padloper is relatively flat and the shields on the carapace are smooth with large areolae. |
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The smallest U. minax male observed to capture a droving fiddler crab had a carapace width of 18.0 mm. |
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No tortoise had sufficient wear to the carapace or plastron to obscure annuli. |
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Also, most specimens are molts, based on thickness of the carapace and posterior displacement of the sternal plastron. |
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In some cases, the carapace margin, the opisthosomal pleurae, and distal regions of the tail spine are absent. |
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Many of the interior molds exhibit evidence of post-mortem distortion prior to preservation and solution of the carapace. |
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Christmas is my season of rising goodwill, a time when I shed my carapace of crabbiness and embrace humanity. |
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On the left-hand side of the carapace, a thin crescentic ridge marks the position of one of the paired lateral eyes. |
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Light percolates through an external carapace of rusted woven wire panels that are kinked and cranked like powerfully rippling muscles. |
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A canopy of metal floats like a huge handkerchief above a voluminous carapace whose thin edges bend gently over the rolling lawns. |
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The eyes can be preserved inside or outside the carapace, which indicates that they could be protruded or withdrawn by the peduncles. |
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This dilated carapace is weak, slippery and ductile when wet, but brittle and elastic when dry. |
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But the related species of one extinct group, the glyptodonts, had a single-piece carapace similar to that of tortoises. |
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A quick, qualitative analysis of valves during SEM work confirmed the presence of pyrite and the calcium phosphate composition of the carapace. |
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The carapace is olive to dark brown to almost black, patternless, smooth and keelless. |
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Some have distinctive markings on their heads and on their carapace, or upper shell. |
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The carapace of a zoea covers the head and the forward portion of the thorax. |
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Scutes over the limbs are termed appendicular scutes, and scutes forming the ventral portion of the carapace are referred to as ventral scutes. |
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Set on a rocky headland of the Southern Adriatic, the city of Dubrovnik presents a bulky carapace of freestone wall on bare rock to the open sea. |
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The surface of the cap of each fungiform structure is either tangential, or slightly inclined, to the surface of the carapace. |
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The horned baboon spiders are a very unique genus having a distinct horn-like fovea on the carapace. |
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Only a few parts of the carapace produce the polarization, mainly the antennal scales, maxillipeds, and uropod scales. |
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For centuries hawksbills have been hunted for this carapace, the natural source of tortoiseshell, and for eggs highly prized in some societies. |
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The hall is shaded by a shallow half-hat of a roof which leaves a crescent-shaped interstice between it and the edge of the big carapace. |
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Maximum valve height of the carapace is roughly at the midpoint of the hinge line. |
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Carl Zimmer describes in his squeamishly gripping book Parasite Rex how, eventually, the barnacle fills the entire carapace of the crab, which becomes, in effect, a zombie. |
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First the skin tears under the carapace just above the coxae of the legs. |
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Most of the significant differences that allow taxa referable to these genera to be consistently distinguished involve features of the soft-part anatomy, not the carapace. |
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The external surface texture is similar to that of the carapace, and consists of subtle low, rounded bosses with scattered small pits and thin grooves. |
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The plastrons of all hatchlings were photocopied for future identification and hatchling body masses and straight-line carapace lengths were recorded. |
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The new material permits a more complete description of the organism, including more details concerning the margins, the dorsal carapace, the venter, and the chelae. |
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Over 100 specimens of M. serendipitous exhibit part or all of the dorsal carapace, the abdomen and telson, or the thoracic sternites with some attached pereiopods. |
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In addition, the carapace and plastron of each turtle were photographed. |
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Proxicarpilius exhibits the weak dorsal carapace ridge at the anterolateral corner and the direct articulation of the coxa with the merus, typical of carpiliids. |
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We identified individuals according to the distinct scale patterns, particularly the dividing line between dark and light scales on the carapace and hind legs. |
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The posterior margin of the carapace is ornamented with a distinct single line of rounded tubercles that are broadly symmetrical about the midline axis of the carapace. |
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I walked back to my desk, keeping the satisfaction locked tight within a carapace of steely unconcern, and took in the scene. |
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The higher estimate was based on growth curves from scute rings, which may have underestimated carapace growth, and a minimum size of females with eggs of 155 mm. |
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She hurled it at the ant, and the stone caromed off the carapace. |
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Streamer tags are plastic tags about the size of twist ties with unique numbers that are attached to the meat of the lobster between the carapace of the body and the tail. |
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These lavas are inferred to have solidified under a semi-solid carapace. |
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Often, a biologist need only examine the pleopods to make a family-level designation, thus making the dorsal carapace features superfluous in the diagnosis. |
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The axial skeleton is rigid and may or may not contact the carapace. |
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So, little by little, youth loosens the hard carapace of confining custom their elders have built over the human heart. |
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Pedipalps, carapace, pedipalpal coxae and anterior half of coxa I red-brown, remainder of body pale red-yellow. |
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In Glyptotherium, hundreds of small osteoderms, also known as scutes, make up a typical carapace. |
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Vestiture as in male except that abdominal venter has long slender setae and the carapace and abdomen lack the conspicuous recumbent scales. |
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There was one for meat, another for shells, and a third for the green tomalley yet to be mined from the carapace. |
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Members of Fuchiba have a finely granulated carapace surface texture, while in Fuchibotulus the surface texture is strongly tuberculated. |
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Greater awareness of that would soften their carapace of greed. |
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A carapace covers the animal's cephalothorax, while the abdomen is long and segmented, ending in a broad tail fan. |
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The head and thorax may be fused together to form a cephalothorax, which may be covered by a single large carapace. |
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It often has spikes on its carapace, which may assist these small organisms in maintaining directional swimming. |
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The turtle's common name comes from the leathery texture and appearance of its carapace. |
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However, their sister taxon is the extinct family Protostegidae that included other species that did not have a hard carapace. |
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Seven distinct ridges rise from the carapace, crossing from the cranial to caudal margin of the turtle's back. |
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It is usually lightly colored, although in the eastern Pacific populations parts of the carapace can be almost black. |
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Its carapace is composed of five central scutes flanked by four pairs of lateral scutes. |
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The carapace of the turtle has various color patterns that change over time. |
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Barnacles and leeches attach to the carapace and flippers of the turtles, which damage their tissues, shells, and lead to blood loss. |
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The distinctions from fossil families such as the Chilenophoberidae are based on the pattern of grooves on the carapace. |
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The carapace also surrounds the gills, through which water is pumped by the action of the mouthparts. |
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The carapace and plastron are joined together on the turtle's sides by bony structures called bridges. |
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Odontochelys displays a complete bony plastron and an incomplete carapace, similar to an early stage of turtle embryonic development. |
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The scientist attached a pinger to the carapace of the sea turtle to track its migration. |
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With their carapace they survive the ordeal of the nets, frisking into scrabbly action as soon as they can. |
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It encases their loserdom in a carapace of purity and righteousness. |
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This is all a massive failure of science to pierce the carapace of public ignorance. |
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Most decapods carry the eggs attached to the pleopods, while peracarids, notostracans, anostracans, and many isopods form a brood pouch from the carapace and thoracic limbs. |
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Except where secondarily lost, shrimp have one pair of stalked eyes, although they are sometimes covered by the carapace, which protects the cephalothorax. |
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Lobster anatomy includes the cephalothorax which fuses the head and the thorax, both of which are covered by a chitinous carapace, and the abdomen. |
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Colouration of carapace blackish, dorsum covered with diminutive hairs adpressed to surface, with numerous long brown bristles on anterior part of eye field. |
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