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Posted: 11/9/2012 12:03:28 PM EDT

Cymothoa exigua - Tongue eating parasite

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:05:26 PM EDT

[#1]

Holy shit!!!!

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:06:19 PM EDT

[#2]

Fish tongues. Ain't scared. Still exterminate with fire.

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:06:27 PM EDT

[#3]

You really need to see your proctologist, and SOON.

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:08:33 PM EDT

[#4]

Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Bilster

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:08:37 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
You really need to see your proctologist, and SOON.

Let it ride till the roids are gone.

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:09:15 PM EDT

[#6]

Aaahhhhh!

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:09:40 PM EDT

[#7]

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:10:53 PM EDT

[#8]

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:11:42 PM EDT

[#9]

Needs more ........ Mark 16 Mod 7 ASROC !!

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:12:29 PM EDT

[#10]

Good movie.

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:12:42 PM EDT

[#11]

wtf

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:12:49 PM EDT

[#12]

That is a parasite. Attaches itself to the fish's tongue and slowly integrates its body into the fish's vascular system....

Yes it actually bonds with the fish

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:14:08 PM EDT

[#13]

Yep, from the old Wiki:

Cymothoa exigua, or the tongue-eating louse, is a parasitic crustacean of the family Cymothoidae. This parasite enters fish through the gills, and then attaches itself at the base of the fish's tongue. The female attaches to the tongue and the male attaches on the gill arches beneath and behind the female. Females are 8–29 millimetres (0.3–1.1 in) long and 4–14 mm (0.16–0.55 in) in maximum width. Males are approximately 7.5–15 mm (0.3–0.6 in) long and 3–7 mm (0.12–0.28 in) wide.[1] It extracts blood through the claws on its front, causing the tongue to atrophy from lack of blood. The parasite then replaces the fish's tongue by attaching its own body to the muscles of the tongue stub. The fish is able to use the parasite just like a normal tongue. It appears that the parasite does not cause any other damage to the host fish.[2] Once C. exigua replaces the tongue, some feed on the host's blood and many others feed on fish mucus. This is the only known case of a parasite functionally replacing a host organ.[2] There are many species of Cymothoa,[3] but only C. exigua is known to consume and replace its host's tongue.

I recommend fire.... And lots of it.

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:14:21 PM EDT

[#14]

Boy, it would suck if there was a tongue-eating louse for humans.

Still, makes a guy want to gargle gasoline and light it up just to make sure.

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:15:43 PM EDT

[#15]

Poster child of the FSA?

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:16:01 PM EDT

[#16]

Oh My

It extracts blood through the claws on its front, causing the tongue to atrophy from lack of blood. The parasite then replaces the fish's tongue by attaching its own body to the muscles of the tongue stub. The fish is able to use the parasite just like a normal tongue. It appears that the parasite does not cause any other damage to the host fish.[2] Once C. exigua replaces the tongue, some feed on the host's blood and many others feed on fish mucus. This is the only known case of a parasite functionally replacing a host organ.[2] There are many species of Cymothoa,[3] but only C. exigua is known to consume and replace its host's tongue.

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:16:41 PM EDT

[#17]

looks like a gigantic sand flea

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:16:43 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
Poster child of the FSA?

No, it sounds like it still does work

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:17:16 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:

Oh My

It extracts blood through the claws on its front, causing the tongue to atrophy from lack of blood. The parasite then replaces the fish's tongue by attaching its own body to the muscles of the tongue stub. The fish is able to use the parasite just like a normal tongue. It appears that the parasite does not cause any other damage to the host fish.[2] Once C. exigua replaces the tongue, some feed on the host's blood and many others feed on fish mucus. This is the only known case of a parasite functionally replacing a host organ.[2] There are many species of Cymothoa,[3] but only C. exigua is known to consume and replace its host's tongue.

oh well that's nice of it

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:17:29 PM EDT

[#20]

the real problem with this is that killing if with fire won't work well in water....some will survive.[shudders]

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:19:11 PM EDT

[#21]

That's not a parasite, it's a symbiotic relationship.

It's really an upgrade if you ask me

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:20:45 PM EDT

[#22]

I think that used to be someone's avatar here.

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:22:03 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:

That's not a parasite, it's a symbiotic relationship.

It's really an upgrade if you ask me

http://www.hollywoodheroes.com/images/alien_from_movie.png

word

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:22:49 PM EDT

[#24]

"Get back in my mouth, little mouth".

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:28:20 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Poster child of the FSA?

No, it sounds like it still does work

Without the host, it dies

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:30:36 PM EDT

[#26]

Wow.....

Somebody needs to caption that thing.

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:33:20 PM EDT

[#27]

That's one seriously effed up bug. First learned about it when I saw that very picture as someones avatar on here.

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:37:51 PM EDT

[#28]

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:40:22 PM EDT

[#29]

Posted: 11/9/2012 12:48:29 PM EDT

[#30]

Water bugs.

To think people eat their cousins.

Posted: 11/9/2012 1:25:22 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
Boy, it would suck if there was a tongue-eating louse for humans.

Still, makes a guy want to gargle gasoline and light it up just to make sure.

LOL

Posted: 11/9/2012 1:34:44 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Oh My

It extracts blood through the claws on its front, causing the tongue to atrophy from lack of blood. The parasite then replaces the fish's tongue by attaching its own body to the muscles of the tongue stub. The fish is able to use the parasite just like a normal tongue. It appears that the parasite does not cause any other damage to the host fish.[2] Once C. exigua replaces the tongue, some feed on the host's blood and many others feed on fish mucus. This is the only known case of a parasite functionally replacing a host organ.[2] There are many species of Cymothoa,[3] but only C. exigua is known to consume and replace its host's tongue.

oh well that's nice of it

Snort

Posted: 11/9/2012 1:45:48 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
Poster child of the FSA?

True. Lol
Learn something new every day.

Posted: 11/9/2012 1:50:46 PM EDT

[#34]

It looks like advertising for a crappy enviro-terror movie. Oh wait, it is:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1713476/

Posted: 11/9/2012 2:18:09 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
Water bugs.

To think people eat their cousins.

If she's hot, what's the problem with that?

Posted: 11/9/2012 2:20:24 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:

It looks like advertising for a crappy enviro-terror movie. Oh wait, it is:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1713476/

if only it were just from a movie

Posted: 11/9/2012 2:22:58 PM EDT

[#37]

I'd eat it

Posted: 11/9/2012 2:24:52 PM EDT

[#38]

You keep that shit down there.
It makes it to the Great Lakes....We have proof you spawned it.

Posted: 11/9/2012 2:31:52 PM EDT

[#39]

That is nightmare material right there!

If it is a pseudo-tongue then let it lick some C4!

Posted: 11/9/2012 2:32:38 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:
You keep that shit down there.
It makes it to the Great Lakes....We have proof you spawned it.

we,ll keep it in the south if you keep your liberals up there and take your transplants back too.

Posted: 11/9/2012 2:34:41 PM EDT

[#41]

Looks like those crawly things you find in the sand at the beach ( the sand that is generally underwater). Looks like its in a fish's mouth.

I believe they are called sand crabs.

ETA: picture...

Posted: 11/9/2012 2:45:19 PM EDT

[#42]

Posted: 11/9/2012 2:48:35 PM EDT

[#43]

Larval Stage one of these...........................

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