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* ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'' allows for creatures to be made with lamprey mouths.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'' allows for creatures to be made has the "Leeyotch", "Gnathognasher" and "Saginaughty" mouth parts which vaguely resemble the mouths of lampreys and other animals with lamprey radial, jawless mouths.
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* Sandworms from Frank Herbert's ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' series have massive ones.

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* Sandworms from Frank Herbert's ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' series have massive ones.ones, arranged in three large "jaws" that can open wide to swallow entire Spice Harvesters.
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* ''Film/DeepRising'': The monster, a giant mutant cephalopod, has a main mouth that is just a giant opening littered with numerous teeth.

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* ''Film/DeepRising'': The monster, a giant mutant cephalopod, has a main mouth that is just a giant opening littered with numerous backwards-facing teeth.

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Does not cover insect-like mandibles. Often a subtrope of MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. A common feature of {{Sand Worm}}s or an AntLionMonster, and an occasional {{Cthulhumanoid}} may sport one. See also NestedMouths.

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Does not cover insect-like mandibles. Often a subtrope of MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. A common feature of {{Sand Worm}}s or an AntLionMonster, and an occasional {{Cthulhumanoid}} may sport one. Does not cover insect-like mandibles.

Often overlaps with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily.
See also NestedMouths.
NestedMouths. Compare FlowerMouth, where the mouth moreso resembles a disgusting blooming flower than a lamprey or worm-like creature.
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* ''Film/DeepRising'': The monster, a giant mutant cephalopod, has a main mouth that is just a giant opening littered with numerous teeth.
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* On ''Series/StrangerThings'', the mouth of a Demogorgon has both an inner tooth-tinged gullet and five encircling petal-like flaps lined with teeth that can close over it.

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* On ''Series/StrangerThings'', the mouth of a Demogorgon has both an inner tooth-tinged tooth-ringed gullet and five encircling petal-like flaps lined with teeth that can close over it.
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* On ''Series/StrangerThings'', the mouth of a Demogorgon has both an inner tooth-tinged gullet and five encircling petal-like flaps lined with teeth that can close over it.
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* Apophis in ''Film/GodsOfEgypt'' has a truly ''gargantuan'' one.
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* The subway worm from ''Film/MenInBlackII''.

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* The Jeff, the subway worm from ''Film/MenInBlackII''.
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** The shape-shifting predator from "Murder on the Planet Express" gobbles its victims whole with an extensible example of this trope.
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** The thessalhydra is a [[OurMonstersAreWeirder very strange]] critter with a gaping Lamprey Mouth surrounded by a bunch of conventional hydra heads. Its clamp-like tail picks up victims and stuffs them into the former.

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** The thessalhydra is a [[OurMonstersAreWeirder [[OurMonstersAreWeird very strange]] critter with a gaping Lamprey Mouth surrounded by a bunch of conventional hydra heads. Its clamp-like tail picks up victims and stuffs them into the former.
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** The thessalhydra is a [[OurMonstersAreWeirder very strange]] critter with a gaping Lamprey Mouth surrounded by a bunch of conventional hydra heads. Its clamp-like tail picks up victims and stuffs them into the former.
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* The Crawlers from ''VideoGame/{{Sundered}}'' have gaping ring-shaped mouths full of sharp white teeth in their center of mass. This mouth is normally concealed under the Crawler’s robes and tentacles, but becomes visible whenever it lunges at the player character.
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* A pretty common type of maw for the monstrous shapeshifters of ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'' to bite peoples' heads off with.
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* ''Film/{{Coneheads}}'': Beldar is revealed as having this during a dental exam.
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Does not cover insect-like mandibles. Often a subtrope of MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. A common feature of {{Sand Worm}}s, and an occasional {{Cthulhumanoid}} may sport one. See also NestedMouths.

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Does not cover insect-like mandibles. Often a subtrope of MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. A common feature of {{Sand Worm}}s, Worm}}s or an AntLionMonster, and an occasional {{Cthulhumanoid}} may sport one. See also NestedMouths.
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* [[spoiler: Mr. Sweet]] from ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Crimson Horror".

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* [[spoiler: Mr. Sweet]] from ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Crimson Horror". Also true of the Mire from "The Girl Who Died".
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* DavidDrake's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheIsles'' features one of these at one point. It's a magical creation made entirely of wood.
* In ''[[PerdidoStreetStation Iron Council]]'', the many-armed creature that menaces Hiddentown has a lamprey mouth on the end of each tentacle.

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* DavidDrake's Creator/DavidDrake's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheIsles'' features one of these at one point. It's a magical creation made entirely of wood.
* In ''[[PerdidoStreetStation ''[[Literature/PerdidoStreetStation Iron Council]]'', the many-armed creature that menaces Hiddentown has a lamprey mouth on the end of each tentacle.
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* While trying to assist the ghost of a young boy to pass over to the next world, [[Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt Antimony]] encounters a creature with one of [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=347 these]]. And it grows much [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=349 bigger]].

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* While trying to assist the ghost of a young boy to pass over to the next world, [[Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt Antimony]] encounters a creature with one of [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=347 these]]. these.]] And it grows much [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=349 bigger]]. bigger.]]
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* ''Literature/TheEdgeChronicles'' has [[http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/224/1/8/edge__logworm_by_ladynazgul_1912-d46a806.jpg logworms]].

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* ''Literature/TheEdgeChronicles'' has [[http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/224/1/8/edge__logworm_by_ladynazgul_1912-d46a806.jpg logworms]].logworms.]]
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* The "Bathing Beauty" teaser for ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryRoanoke'' features a woman looking into a bathtub, only for her [[ExorcistHead head to turn around]] and reveal this in place of her face.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'''s story "Bender's Game", the Tunneling Horror has a lamprey mouth in which concentric rings of teeth rotate in opposite directions.
** Also, Leela's father, a mutant, has a normal-shaped mouth but teeth arranged in a ring.

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In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'''s the story "Bender's Game", the Tunneling Horror has a lamprey mouth in which concentric rings of teeth rotate in opposite directions.
** Also, Leela's father, a mutant, has a normal-shaped mouth but teeth arranged in a ring.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' and the TV spinoff, the Whispering Death is a breed of dragon with this kind of mouth.
* The underwater monster guarding the Armor Impenetrable in ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'' has an absolutely ''huge'' one.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' and the TV spinoff, the Whispering Death is a breed of dragon with this kind of mouth.



* The underwater monster guarding the Armor Impenetrable in ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'' has an absolutely ''huge'' one.
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* The Chtorran worms in ''TheWarAgainstTheChtorr''. Their teeth encircle their mouth, curving inwards to draw the prey into their body. Once they've taken a bite, they can't stop or they'll choke to death.
* In ''[[GarrettPI Petty Pewter Gods]]'', one of the trio of double-ugly thugs in the Godoroth pantheon has a mouth like this.
* ''TheEdgeChronicles'' has [[http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/224/1/8/edge__logworm_by_ladynazgul_1912-d46a806.jpg logworms]].

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* The Chtorran worms in ''TheWarAgainstTheChtorr''.''Literature/TheWarAgainstTheChtorr''. Their teeth encircle their mouth, curving inwards to draw the prey into their body. Once they've taken a bite, they can't stop or they'll choke to death.
* In ''[[GarrettPI ''[[Literature/GarrettPI Petty Pewter Gods]]'', one of the trio of double-ugly thugs in the Godoroth pantheon has a mouth like this.
* ''TheEdgeChronicles'' ''Literature/TheEdgeChronicles'' has [[http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/224/1/8/edge__logworm_by_ladynazgul_1912-d46a806.jpg logworms]].
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* The underwater monster guarding the Armor Impenetrable in ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'' has an absolutely ''huge'' one.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'''s rockworm, an Awakened concrete-eating giant earthworm, is depicted with this sort of mouth.

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* The Sandlings in ''ComicBook/WhiteSand'' have round mouth full of several rings of inwards-pointing teeth.


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* Round mouths are the norm for animal life on Longtunnel, a cave-dominated world from the Literature/HumanxCommonwealth 'Verse.

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* Round mouths are the norm for animal life on Longtunnel, a cave-dominated world from the Literature/HumanxCommonwealth 'Verse. Naturally, that means that most of its predators have a LampreyMouth, although spore-feeders and some insectivores avert this by having no teeth.
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* Round mouths are the norm for animal life on Longtunnel, a cave-dominated world from the Literature/HumanxCommonwealth 'Verse.

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