ウオノエ タイノエ
Also known as the tongue-eating louse; it is a species of parasitic [[isopod]] [[crustacean]] whose females attach themselves to a fish host's tongue and feed on blood. Eventually the tongue is reduced to a stub and the [[parasite]] effectively becomes the fish's new tongue.
The Cymothoidae family is incorrectly called [i]uonoe[/i] (lit. "fish-food") in Japanese. (And its subspecies are called [i]tainoe[/i] (bream-food), [i]fugunoe[/i] (puffer-fish-food) and [i]tobiuonoe[/i] (flying-fish-food))

h4.See also:

* Wikipedia article: "Cymothoa exigua species":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua / "Cymothoidae family":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoidae
 
 
cymothoa exigua