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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
3. no skull-capsule, no jaws... but earthworms don't have a face either
Mon Jan 2, 2012, 08:49 AM
Jan 2012

I guess, he would just need lips and something like a tongue to suck his food in.

If he can only eat plancton, he doesn't need a stomach, just a colon, like a shrimp.
If his food isn't chemically complicated, he doesn't need a very large liver.
And if the blood vessel structure of his intestines is simple and straightforward, he doesn't need a strong heart either, like an earthworm.
Maybe his internal organs are just too small to see on the picture.

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