Sentence examples for the upper shell from inspiring English sources

The upper shell is called a carapace, and the lower a plastron.

The upper shell is brown, and the neck and legs are reddish.

When young it has three longitudinal ridges on the upper shell; these become worn down with time.

Once you pry off the upper shell, though, you are faced with the sort of sight my younger daughter used to characterize as "guts and throw-up".

The upper shell valve, though it is more convex than the lower, is usually irregular in shape and follows the configuration of the rock surface.

It is found in southern and central regions and is a sedentary turtle with three prominent longitudinal ridges on the upper shell.

The rough upper shell of the wood turtle is about 15 20 cm (6 8 inches) long and bears concentrically grooved pyramids on each of the large plates (scutes).

Several decorator crabs use portions of the model for concealment by picking up algae and sponges and placing them on the carapace (upper shell) to cover their own coloration; the algae and sponges continue to live as if in their normal habitat.

The smooth, broad upper shell of the Pacific pond turtle is about 15 25 cm (6 10 inches) long and is brown or blackish with yellow spots and streaks.

This theory holds that the Earth's upper shell, or lithosphere, consists of nearly a dozen large, quasi-stable slabs called plates.

"We needed something to create tension in some areas of the carapace [the upper shell] and movement in other areas," Mettee said.