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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The parasite known as the 'tongue-eating louse’ was discovered in an import of fish in Suffolk. (Suffolk Coastal Port Health ...

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 ...

#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: ...