Fish Gets to Taste What Is Tasting It (IMAGE)

U.S. Geological Survey

Fish Gets to Taste What Is Tasting It

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This cymothoid isopod (Nerocila californica) chews on the tongue of its mullet host (Mugil cephalus).

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Kevin Lafferty/USGS

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