Animals possessing an external skeleton composed of chitinous rings, or somites, and provided with articulated limbs. |
Phoronida is a second lophophorate phylum, comprising coelomate, vermiform animals living in chitinous tubes. |
Eurypterid cuticle was chitinous and of varying thickness, but generally very thin, and preserved specimens are usually crushed. |
There was a slight spurt of body fluid as the chitinous armor was partly broken. |
When something dark and chitinous scuttled out from the scrub, Darius was forced to bodily haul him out of its way. |
Every normal crustacean, on the other hand, has the abdominal region of the body covered by a thick chitinous shell. |