Fascinating! I was completely unaware of this tongue-gobbling "shrimp."
More information and a brief overview of some other peculiar parasites
(including an emasculating barnacle and an eyeball-sucking copepod) can be
found here:
http://www.bogleech.com/bio-para.html
- Jan Hoover
Vicksburg, MS
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