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A tiny crustacean called Cymothoa exigua enters a fish through the gills, severs the tongue, and then attaches itself in the tongue's place, functioning as a working ...

Cymothoa exigua, a small marine crustacean, enters fish through the gills, severs the tongue, and attaches to the stump — ...
Futurism

Cymothoa Exigua: Meet The Sex-Changing, Tongue-Eating Parasite

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. A pair ...
Forbes

Meet The Disturbing Parasite That Eats—And Becomes—Tongues

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Imagine a small, otherworldly looking crustacean that ...
The Guardian

‘Unique and important’: Tongue-biting louse is wonderfully gruesome

The inventive parasite Cymothoa exigua can survive for years by taking over a fish’s tongue and keeping its host alive In the waters of the east Pacific lives a creature so strange and unsettling it ...
insider.si.edu

Cymothoa sp.

#92 SPECIES: Cymothoa sp. WILLIAMS FIELD NUMBER: 850630SEAd LOCATION IN/ON HOST: 5 on tongue facing out and one (fish #1) on the left flank just anterior of the anal fin SPECIMENS: 6 juveniles HOST: ...
insider.si.edu

Cymothoa sp.

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