A carapace is a dorsal (upper) section of the exoskeleton or shell in a number of animal groups, including arthropods, such as crustaceans and arachnids...

strut are part of the plastron. On the carapace are the sutures into which they insert, known as the Bridge carapace suture. In the shell there is a turtle's...

large, quadrapedral (four-legged), herbivorous armadillos with armored carapaces (top shell) that were made of hundreds of interconnected osteoderms (structures...

Carapace Nunatak (76°53′S 159°24′E / 76.883°S 159.400°E / -76.883; 159.400) is a prominent isolated nunatak, the most westerly near the head of Mackay...

shell is divided into the upper or dorsal carapace, and the lower, ventral carapace or plastron. The upper carapace consists of the vertebral scutes, which...

The cephalothorax is covered by a carapace which protects the internal organs and the gills; the section of the carapace that projects in front of the eyes...

overall size, and by the relative broadness of its carapace, which is around 70% of the length of the carapace. Metacyrba taeniola taeniola (Hentz, 1846) –...

water. Turtle shells are made mostly of bone; the upper part is the domed carapace, while the underside is the flatter plastron or belly-plate. Its outer...

living sea turtle. Archelon had a leathery carapace instead of the hard shell seen in most sea turtles. The carapace may have featured a row of small ridges...

for swimming or walking. The common ancestor is thought to have had a carapace, and most living species possess one, but it has been lost in some subgroups...

characterized by an elongated, segmented body, a flattened shield-like brownish carapace covering two thirds of the thorax, and two long filaments on the abdomen...

received several names in literature, being known as either Carapace Sandstone or Carapace Formation, being a series of Freshwater environments developed...

usually green fat found beneath its carapace, due to its diet strictly being seagrass, not to the color of its carapace, which is olive to black. The dorsoventrally...

depths up to 2,600 ft (790 m), and reaches 133 mm (5.2 in) across the carapace. This crab species occurs on the eastern coast of North America, from Iceland...

the wild. Hatchling and juvenile pond sliders have a green upper shell (carapace), yellow bottom shell (plastron), and green and yellow stripes and markings...

Immortan Joe is the "ruler of the wasteland... He wears a clear, plastic carapace — chest armor — over oozing sores, his long, white hair flaring around...

about 40 millimetres (1.6 in) across its almost circular, reddish-brown carapace and lives on coarse soft bottoms at shallow depths. There are 9–11 sharp...

together to form a cephalothorax, which may be covered by a single large carapace. The crustacean body is protected by the hard exoskeleton, which must be...

bears a long spike, known as the telson. Like other horseshoe crabs, the carapace of T. tridentatus consists of a larger frontal one (the prosoma) and a...

Zhang, X. (2022). "The evolution of biramous appendages revealed by a carapace-bearing Cambrian arthropod". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...

crab Keiler et al., 2017 defines a carcinised morphology as follows: "The carapace is flatter than it is broad and possesses lateral margins." "The sternites...

large, quadrupedal (four-legged), herbivorous armadillo with an armored carapace (top shell) that was made of hundreds of interconnected osteoderms (structures...

Podocnemididae. It is the largest freshwater turtle known to have existed, with a carapace over 2 meters long. Its fossils have been found in northern South America...

colour, having an oval carapace with a characteristic "pie crust" edge and black tips to the claws. A mature adult may have a carapace width up to 25 centimetres...

and incisor teeth in the adults (called the lacinia mobilis), and of a carapace which is often reduced in size and is not fused with the posterior thoracic...

more pectines, comb-like teeth, 26-29 than females 20–22. Anterior of the carapace is virtually smooth, with slight emarginates. The carinae are seen to be...

shield-backed kelp crab, is a species of crab in the family Epialtidae. Its upper carapace is typically dark brown, olive, or olive-brown. The underside surface tends...

and have longer legs in relation to their body size. In both sexes, the carapace and legs are dark brown to black, and the abdomen is charcoal grey with...

Both sexes are brown, with some darker parts, such as of the front of the carapace (the upper surface of the cephalothorax), the ends of the legs and the...

found to have a straight-midline carapace length between 351-550 mm, while mature males had a straight-midline carapace length between 451-650 mm. Males...