pharyngeal mill

pharyngeal mill
molar teeth in the pharyngeal region used to crush shellfish, e.g. in Sparidae; in Poeciliidae the roof plates in the throat are on pharyngobranchials 2-4 and the floor plates are on ceratabranchials 4 and/or 5

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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