Tongue eating Parasite

I have blogged about this little nightmare before. I caught another one hat had replaced the tongue of a big silver trevally today and took some more pictures.

This little parasite attaches itself to the silver trevally's tongue and sucks the blood out of it till the tongue dies. It then takes the place of the tongue.



It hooks onto the floor of the mouth with it's multiple hook like legs.



Imagine such a parasite replacing your tongue. Wow it's more amazing than he face hugging parasite.