A tiny sea creature that was found by a mother in a tin of tuna chunks is a tongue-eating parasite, experts have claimed. Zoe Butler, 28, was horrified when she opened the tin of Princes tuna to ...

The blood-sucker is one of 24 new species of the killer parasite Cymothoa exigua which stays alive by feeding on its host from the inside. A blood-sucking parasite has been found to eat fish from the ...

Parasites that eat fish tongues and take their place in the mouth have been found in a batch of seabream arriving at a port in the U.K. The parasites, Cymothoa exigua, were first spotted in the ...

来自墨西哥的研究人员针对东太平洋地区缩头水虱属(Cymothoa)物种单一性问题，通过对马萨特兰渔市采集的27雌5雄样本进行形态学分析，描述新种C. facimar sp. nov.。该物种与东太平洋已知种C. exigua在体形、头胸部和腹节等特征相似，但通过雌体体型、背板纹饰及腹 ...

to eliminate the host's fear or extend the host's lifespan. BioArk, a biology YouTube channel, explains one such parasite, `` Uonoe,'' which parasitizes the tongue of a fish and becomes a tongue.

A parasite known as ‘the tongue-eating louse’ has been discovered among an import of fish. Cymothoa exigua, a parasitic isopod, is typically found south of the Gulf of California. The creepy creature ...

Scientists now think they know the identity of the stomach-turning creature found in a tuna tin in Nottingham. The mystery monster was the centre of much Twitter discussion on the hashtag #tunagate.

A woman who discovered an alien-like parasite hiding inside a dead fish has turned to the internet for help identifying the critter. Sydney woman Mel Spikes, who runs a fishing page on Facebook, ...

We’ve covered cymothoa exigua, the horrifying alien-like parasites that eat and then replace fish tongues, pretty extensively around here (mainly in connection with last year’s fish tongue parasite ...

Paul Poli was tucking in to a sea bass bought from Morrisons when he discovered the parasite, and says it’s put him off fish for life Cymothoa exigua enters fish (here a Sand steenbras, Lithognathus ...