“Marcus assisted Vandal in putting on what he called the lorica segmentata, the main part of amour that protected the torso.”

“Stiff cuticles are simple to recognize, and loricate genera can often be recognized based upon lorica shape alone.”

“The plesiomorphic condition in both adults and larvae of the lorica seems to be a thin lorica with many plicae.”

“All weapons, armor, embolon, figurehead, and high-class loricae are made by them.”

“Upon asexual reproduction, the loricae of the ciliate kill the colonized area by emitting chemicals that cause lysis of the coral tissue.”

“The loricae themselves, in all cases, seems to be rather stylized, with far more and narrower horizontal bands than any type known from archaeology.”