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Parasitic isopod
Marine, from thyrsites atun (barracouta) mouth.
Approx 30mm in length, crawled out of mouth of barracouta (thyrsites atun) about 10 minutes after it was caught.
Fascinaing ! -seen some in documentaries only . thanks for posting this -Has made me curious; will have to read-up.
I wondered the same, but I didn't think c. exigua had been found in Australia. I would guess it's some form of Cymothoa sp though.
Disturbing and fascinating, is this that parasites that destroys a fish's tongue and then acts as the tongue? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_ex...
Spotted on Jan 5, 2011
Submitted on Jan 7, 2012
