Cymothoa exigua, known as the tongue-eating louse, is a parasitic isopod in the family Cymothoidae found throughout the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It lives as an ectoparasite on the outside of its host, and adults can grow up to about an inch long, making them among the largest isopods recorded. The species is a sequential hermaphrodite: every individual is born male and later switches to female, so mature females are generally larger than males. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Source Wikidata: Tongue-eating Louse
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1. Cymothoa exigua (Wikipedia)
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Cymothoa exigua, known as the tongue-eating louse, is a parasitic isopod in the family Cymothoidae found throughout the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
2. GBIF Species API
3. Wikipedia: Cymothoa exigua
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Wikidata: Tongue-eating Louse
Child Taxon Of: Malacostraca, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chainView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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