{"id":26,"date":"2005-09-01T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elegans.uky.edu\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2005-09-01T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T10:10:00","slug":"tongue-eating-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Tongue-eating bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a picture from a story making the rounds because it turned up in a London fishmarket. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cymothoa exigua, a fish parasite.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>  The 3.5cm creature had grabbed onto the fish\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tongue and slowly ate away at it until only a stub was left.<\/p>\n<p>    It then latched onto the stub and became the fish\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153replacement tongue\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>    The bugs are usually found off the coast of California, so it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible the fish was imported to the UK.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are two pictures from the London story:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pics\/Cymothoa_exigua1.jpg\" alt=\"Cymothoa exigua\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pics\/Cymothoa_exigua2.jpg\" alt=\"Cymothoa exigua #2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a pic from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bogleech.com\/bio-para.html\">web site about parasites<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pics\/Cymothoa_exigua3.jpg\" alt=\"Cymothoa exigua #3\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amonline.net.au\/fishes\/faq\/tongue.htm\">Two pics from the Australian Museum:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pics\/Cymothoa_exigua4.jpg\" alt=\"Cymothoa exigua #4\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pics\/Cymothoa_exigua5.jpg\" alt=\"Cymothoa exigua #5\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Be glad you have hands to pull it off you if it bites your tongue. The poor fish is stuck\u00e2\u20ac\u201chis fins can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t reach in and grab it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a picture from a story making the rounds because it turned up in a London fishmarket. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cymothoa exigua, a fish parasite. The 3.5cm creature had grabbed onto the fish\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tongue and slowly ate away at it until only a stub was left. It then latched onto the stub and became the fish\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153replacement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}