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KOI TEETH

 

A little bit of luck today,whilst bowling and bagging a few koi.
while emptying the bowl out afterwards we noticed one of the koi had spat a pharyngeal tooth out
Quickly gathered it up and the result is the photo below.
so all you doubters that did not think Koi had teeth, this is it.

Its hollow inside and a bit like a small childs milk tooth.

These are located towards the back of the throat attached to the pharyngeal bones and grind against a bone like pallet in the roof of the mouth, and are quite capable of grinding up the hardest of nuts

for the record it came from a koi about 12" long and is the size of a small pea