Piojo Come Lengua /Tongue-Eating Louse (Cymothoa Exigua). [Esp/Eng]

Hi friends of hive I wanted you to know this magnificent, unique and rare parasite cymothoa exigua nicknamed tongue-eating louse, which affects a number of species of fish, with a fairly widespread distribution that ranges from the Gulf of California to the south to the north of the Gulf from Guayaquil in Ecuador, very little is known about its reproduction but there is evidence of transsexuality in the absence of females at an early age before reaching its maximum size of 10mm.

Binomial name Cymothoa exigua (Schiødte & Meinert, 1884)

Cymothoa exigua is a parasitic crustacean of the family Cymothoidae. This parasite attaches itself at the base of the of the spotted rose snapper, Lutjanus guttatus, with the claws on its front three pairs of legs, and extracts blood. As the parasite grows, less and less blood is able to reach the tongue, and eventually the organ atrophies from lack of blood. The parasite then replaces the fish's tongue with its own body, by attaching to the muscles of the tongue stub. The fish is able to use the parasite just like a normal tongue, except that it has to share its food with the parasite. It appears that the parasite does not cause any other damage to the host fish C. exigua replaces the tongue, it supplements its diet with food particles, thereby relieving strain on the host's circulatory system. This is the only known case of a parasite functionally replacing a host organ.
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La película The Bay o terror en la bahia estrenada en 2012 es una película de terror estadounidense dirigida por Barry Levinson y escrita por Michael Wallach presenta parásitos mutantes que devoran la lengua y otros órganos de las personas y eventualmente toman el control de sus mentes, la cual fue inspirada en el piojo comelenguas.

The Bay is a 2012 American horror film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Michael Wallach featuring mutated parasites that devour people's tongues and other organs and eventually take control of their minds, which was inspired by the tongue-eating louse

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Gracias por leer y apoyar tenia muchas ganas de participar en la comunidad porque la naturaleza y la biodiversidad es un tema que me apasiona, espero seguir mejorardo y publicando.

Thank you for reading and supporting, I really wanted to participate in the community because nature and biodiversity is a topic that I am passionate about, I hope to continue improving and publishing