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  2. Sea urchin - Wikipedia

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    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):

  3. Echinus (sea urchin) - Wikipedia

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    Echinus sea urchins suspension feed by using ciliary band that extends across the body of the pluteus, removing particles from any surface. Those particles then become confined by the pedicellaria of the sea urchin and carried to the mouth, also known as Aristotle's lantern. [4]

  4. Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis - Wikipedia

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    Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis eats by using a special appendage called an Aristotle’s lantern to scrape or tear their food into digestible bits. This structure is made of five calcareous, protractible teeth that are maneuvered by a complex muscular structure.

  5. Heliophora - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. File:Aristotle Altemps Inv8575.jpg - Wikipedia

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  7. Lytechinus variegatus - Wikipedia

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    The green sea urchin occurs in tropical waters in the western Atlantic Ocean. The subspecies occupy different geographical areas. L. v. variegatus occurs in the Caribbean Sea, southern Florida, the Yucatán peninsula and northern Brazil but not Barbados while L. v. carolinus is found from North Carolina southwards to the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.

  8. List of nicknames of philosophers - Wikipedia

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    Father of Logic: Aristotle [4] The Jewish Luther: Moses Mendelssohn [5] Laughing Philosopher: Democritus [6] Longshoreman Philosopher: Eric Hoffer [7] Mother of Feminism: Mary Wollstonecraft [8] Philosopher of Fascism: Giovanni Gentile [9] Plato: Aristocles son of Ariston, [10] but see Plato#Name. The Philosopher: Aristotle [4]

  9. Ossicle (echinoderm) - Wikipedia

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    Other large specialist plates surround the mouth in a set of jaws known as Aristotle's lantern. [4] Sea stars have separate plates giving flexibility to the disc and arms. They are arranged into interambulacral and ambulacral regions and the arms have an ambulacral groove on the underside from which the tube feet project.