carapace

How To Use carapace In A Sentence

• Their bodies are not distinctly segmented, but an important feature of their anatomy is the carapace, a folded shell-like structure which covers the animal and opens both ventrally and posteriorly.
• All specimens are exuviae, with thin and fragile carapaces and abdomens and fragmentary bodies and appendages.
• Naupli have a cephalic shield or the beginnings of the dorsal carapace, and no segmentation on the trunk.
• 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.
• He showed Anna how to open the carapace and extract the good meat with her fingers. THE MAIN CAGES
• Carapace width does not vary within a molt and is proportional to the length of the males' raptorial forelimbs, which they use in attacking other males.
• The broadness of the portunid sternum allows the appendages to project well beyond the lateral margins of the carapace and is an adaptation to the swimming habit which most portunids exhibit.
• The dorsal carapace, as far as is known to the authors, has never been described from the fossil record.
• In the performance of this task, at last the hard carapace of my resistance broke apart.
• For centuries hawksbills have been hunted for this carapace, the natural source of tortoiseshell, and for eggs highly prized in some societies.