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Aristotle’s lantern is a complex system of jaws and muscles which are capable of a variety of feeding types including suspension feeding, herbivory and detritivory feeding, and occasionally predation. Adaptations to this lantern have allowed sand dollars to live in habitats which have fine, shifting substrates.
Aristotle's lantern in a sea urchin, viewed in lateral section. The mouth of most sea urchins is made up of five calcium carbonate teeth or plates, with a fleshy, tongue-like structure within. The entire chewing organ is known as Aristotle's lantern from Aristotle's description in his History of Animals (translated by D'Arcy Thompson):
This is surrounded by the feeding apparatus known as Aristotle's lantern with five toothed jaws each with oval jaw plates. [3] There is a comb-like arrangement of spines down either side of the arms giving them a bristly appearance. [ 4 ]
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Sollasina cthulhu. Ophiocistioids had a flattened globular body encased in a solid test of calcareous plates, similar to that of a modern sea urchin.As with sea urchins, the mouth faced downwards and contains a structure known as an Aristotle's lantern.
The reef urchin conceals itself in crevices or under boulders. It emerges at night to feed by grazing on algae with its five teeth, part of the Aristotle's lantern organ that surrounds its mouth. [4] It is not believed to bore holes, but its grazing still causes bioerosion in reefs. [5] In Panama, breeding takes place during the period April to ...