Common Name: Tongue-Eating Louse
Scientific Name: Cymothoa exigua
Status: Not Yet Assessed
The tongue-eating louse (Cymothoa exigua) is quite a strange, scary thing to come across when you’re surfing the web for crazy interesting animals. This parasitic invertebrate enters the body of a fish through the gills and works its way towards the fish’s tongue, where it latches onto the organ in order to gain access to an important artery ... READ THE REST OF THIS POST
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