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chaeta

a stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm

Chitinization

The process of becoming chitinous

Chitinous

Having the nature of chitin consisting of or containing chitin

Endophragma

A chitinous structure above the nervous cord in the thorax of certain

Hydractinian

allied genera These hydroids form by their rootstalks a firm chitinous coating on shells and stones and esp on spiral shells

Odontophore

consists of several muscles and a cartilage which supports a chitinous radula or lingual ribbon armed with teeth Also applied to

Parapleura

A chitinous piece between the metasternum and the pleuron of certain insects

Periostracum

A chitinous membrane covering the exterior of many shells called also epidermis

Pneumoskeleton

A chitinous structure which supports the gill in some invertebrates

Prophragma

An internal dorsal chitinous process between the first two divisions of the thorax of

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