Assertion: tortoise's carapace | /r/HasProperty | top shell
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text: Twizzler arrived in 2007 with hardened gray material all over the left side of his carapace (top shell), causing a severe deformity.
text: Dome-shelled tortoises lack an upward angle to the front of their carapace (shell), restricting the extent to which they can raise their heads.
text: The carapace – the top of the shell – is dull brown, while the plastron is yellow-brown.
text: Their carapace (the top shell) is light tan to brown in colour which gives it ample camouflage in their sandy environment.
text: Male sulcata tortoises reach sexual maturity when their carapace (top shell) is about 14 inches in diameter.
text: The Mojave Desert tortoise has a domed carapace (top shell) made up of large scutes.
text: The plastron (bottom shell) of these turtles is hinged and, when closed, fits firmly against the carapace (top shell).
text: The carapace (top shell) is brown, with a variable pattern of radiating dark lines on each scute (shell plate), helping to camouflage the tortoise.
text: Once the tortoises spread around the archipelago, they evolved on their isolated islands into the different races we see today, some with domed carapaces (shells), and others with saddleback carapaces.
text: They have dark-colored, loaf-shaped carapaces (back shell) with a lighter patch in the middle of each scute (scales on the shell), and dark limbs with brightly colored scales that range from pale yellow to dark red.
text: They have a huge carapace (shell) which is an integral part of their skeleton.
text: They have a dark carapace (shell) which is marked with yellow lines that radiate from the center of each plate.