Radula of a limpet, Patella vulgata, magnified x50. The limpet's coiled-up radula (tongue) is twice as long as its shell armed with thousands of crystal teeth. Chromolithograph after an illustration by , lithographed by Vincent Brooks, from "Graphic Microscopy" plates to illustrate "Hardwicke's Science Gossip," London, 1865-1885.

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