Aristotle's lantern
Aristotle's lantern In regular echinoids, the jaw apparatus, which consists of five, strong jaws, each with one tooth, that form a structure shaped like a lantern inside the mouth. The teeth are used for scraping algae and other material from the surface on which the animal feeds.
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