Bottle Teat and Cap for a Drinking Bottle

A bottle teat consisting of a soft elastic material for a drinking bottle, in particular for infants and small children, having:a teat flange,a hollow teat sleeve that projects upward from the teat flange and is connected at its bottom end to the teat flange,a hollow suction part that is connected at its bottom end to the top end of the hollow teat sleeve and projects upward therefrom,a dome-shaped palate-contacting region on a side of the mouthpiece facing the palate,at least one drinking hole in the palate-contacting region that extends from the outside to the inside of the mouthpiece,wherein:an elevated surface that bulges to the outside is on the outside of the palate-contacting region, andthe at least one drinking hole is arranged in the elevated surface so that the suction part with the elevated surface can be pressed in a sealing manner against an inwardly bulging sealing surface on the inside of the cap bottom of a cap to cover the bottle teat.