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Monday, October 2, 2017

Fish Head With Tongue-Stealing Parasites

This is built like a slab pot, but it's not a pot.  It's a fish head infested with two Cymothoa exigua, the rare and exciting tongue-eating louse.  The louse is a parasitic isopod which causes a fish's tongue to fall out and then takes the place of its tongue, presumably helping itself to a little of whatever the fish eats.  They really do have disturbing little smiley faces like that.