Scale

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What Wikipedia says

In zoology, a scale (Ancient Greek: λεπίς, romanized: lepís; Latin: squāma) is a small rigid plate made out of keratin that grows out of vertebrate animals' skin to provide protection.

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Image: Pacific Southwest Region USFWS from Sacramento, US, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.