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  2. Carapace - Wikipedia

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    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, as well as vertebrates, such as turtles and tortoises.

  3. Tarasque - Wikipedia

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    The Tarasque is a creature from French mythology.According to the Golden Legend, the beast had a lion-like head, a body protected by turtle-like carapace(s), six feet with bear-like claws, a serpent's tail, and could expel a poisonous breath.

  4. Barnacle - Wikipedia

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    Barnacles have a carapace made of six hard calcareous plates, with a lid or operculum made of four more plates. Inside the carapace, the animal lies on its stomach, projecting its limbs downwards. Segmentation is usually indistinct; the body is more or less evenly divided between the head and thorax, with little or no abdomen. Adult barnacles ...

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    A dwarf-sized creature scurried along its eight legs through its home in an Uruguay grassland. ... They are similar in color with a brown to brownish orange carapace, brown sternum and “light ...

  6. Loggerhead sea turtle - Wikipedia

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    Typically, 11 or 12 pairs of marginal scutes rim the carapace. [8] Five vertebral scutes run down the carapace's midline, while five pairs of costal scutes border them. [21] The nuchal scute is located at the base of the head. [21] The carapace connects to the plastron by three pairs of inframarginal scutes forming the bridge of the shell. [21]

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  9. Horseshoe crab - Wikipedia

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    The most common method involves the animal arching its opisthosoma towards the carapace and balancing its telson on the substrate. The animal then moves the telson while beating its legs and gills. This causes the animal to tilt and eventually flip over. [40] Furthermore, horseshoe crabs can right themselves while swimming.