Sentence examples for carapace top from inspiring English sources

Epidermal scales cover the bony scales of the carapace (top) and plastron (bottom) of turtles' shells.

Cheloniids are hard-shelled sea turtles with a bony carapace (top shell) and plastron (bottom shell) with epidermal scutes (scales).

The turtle carapace, the top dorsal part of the shell, is a remarkable multi-scale dermal armor that has evolved to withstand various types of high-stress events encountered in nature.

Loggerhead turtles are reddish brown and olive on the carapace, or top shell.

The turtle shell has a top (carapace) and a bottom (plastron).

The color of the top shell (carapace) varies from olive to black.

The oldest known species, a 210-million-year-old fossil from Germany, has a complete bottom shell, called a plastron, and a complete top shell, or carapace.

Elsewhere, instead of character, we have costumes and hairpieces: Skelton's mustard-yellow top-coat and waxed moustache, Susan Bickley's carapace of a chignon, topped with a hat like an angry diacritic.

Place the gauge at the top of the carapace.

The keratin-covered boney top (dorsal) part of the shell, termed carapace, is composed of rigid sandwich-like ribs made of a central foam-like interior flanked by two external cortices.

White-chocolate bread pudding came in the form of two dense, heavy logs; limoncello crème brûlée, barely browned on top, lacked the crunchy sweet carapace of the properly burned custard.