Care for an isopod that chews off your tongue then latches onto the stub to suck your blood? Or how about a scale-clinger, gill-dweller, or flesh-burrower?
The fact that they only use marine fish as hosts won't stop me from having nightmares about them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua
[#]nature #fish #isopod #parasite
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