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outer defensive skeletal development that covers the assortment of many spineless creatures. Generally R. doesn't stick firmly to the body and has an opening through which the creature can somewhat distend outward. R. comprises of natural substances, frequently with an admixture of calcium carbonate or encrusted with grains of sand, diatom shells, wipe needles, and so on. R. are normal for some protozoa, most mollusks, as well as certain arthropods and brachiopods. The shell of testate one-celled critters comprises of a chitinous or coagulated substance and is frequently supported with grains of sand and different particles recently gulped by the single adaptable cell. The R. of most reinforced beats (See Whips) is shaped by a few plates of fiber. R. foraminifera (See Foraminifera) is frequently impregnated with carbonic lime, now and again encrusted with grains of sand, seldom shaped exclusively by natural matter. It very well may be single or multi-chamber. The size of the R. foraminifera goes from 50 microns to a few cm. The external layer (periostracum) comprises of the natural matter of conchin, while the inward layer (ostracum, or porcelain-like) comprises of crystals of aragonite, or calcareous fight, situated at a point to the outer layer of the rhizome, associated by conchin; the center layer (hypostracum, or mother-of-pearl) comprises of aragonite plates layered on top of one another, additionally patched by conchin. R. mollusks are extremely different in size and shape (in the marine bivalve mollusk tridacna R. gauges up to 25 kg and arrives at a length of 1.7 m). In protected molluscs, the R. comprises of 8 dorsal plates, covering each other in a tiled way; in gastropods, it seems as though a cone shaped tube, generally snaked into a winding; in bivalves - R. of 2 valves associated on the dorsal side with one another by a versatile band (tendon) and a lock. In certain cephalopods, the R. are spirally curved and comprise of many loads (transport, fossil a
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