Isopods – Tongue eating fish parasites

This is one nasty creature – It burrows into fish and eats out their tongue and then takes its place. Called isopods, they are crustaceans with seven pairs of legs and some species can be half a meter long (50 cm)! Most species are just about 1 inch long though (fortunately).

Fishermen near the island of Minquiers, near Jersey, one of the Channel Islands, found an isopod inside a weaver fish.

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