Shell At Biology Glossary
What is it? Any hard outer covering, such as the carapace of turtles and tortoises, the exoskeleton of crustaceans, the calcareous plates of echinoderms, the outermost membranes of an egg, the skeleton of Forminifera, and the mantle secretions of mollusks.Bio Definition Added By: Sebastian
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