part of part of has part has part in taxon Merkel cell Talpidae sense organ dermal papilla Pacinian corpuscle Eimer's organ present in many moles, and are particularly common in the star-nosed mole, which bears 30,000 of them on its unique tentacled snout Wikipedia:Eimer's_organ A sensory organ in which the epidermis is modified to form bulbous papillae. The organs are formed from a stack of epidermal cells, which is innervated by nerve processes from myelinated fibers in the dermis, which form terminal swellings just below the outer keratinized layer of epidermis. They contain a Merkel cell-neurite complex in the epidermis and a lamellated corpuscle in the dermal connective tissue. UBERON:0011255