They should be plump and springy to the touch, with no trace of hard carapace.

In its depths, he could see the reflection from the hard carapace of an ant.

He heard the crack of the hard carapace.

However, their sister taxon is the extinct family Protostegidae which included other species not having a hard carapace.

In the clear morning air their hard yellow-and-black carapaces reflected the sunlight with an unpleasant glare.

Steel rang as the warrior struck the elemental's hard carapace.

Umbra: A species of floating spheres with a hard, black carapace.

Lobster in the summer often means shedders, soft shells that have shed their hard carapaces and not quite finished growing new ones.

The fields were grey with a hard carapace of frozen snow.

She looked for the gleam of a hard carapace, or the telltale eyes.