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Cymothoa exigua, or the tongue-eating louse, is a parasitic isopod of the family Cymothoidae. It enters a fish through the gills. The female attaches to the tongue, while the male attaches to the gill arches beneath and behind the female. Females are 8–29 mm (0.3–1.1 in) long and 4–14 mm (0.16–0.55 in) wide.
Gongylonema pulchrum was first named and presented with its own species by Molin in 1857. The first reported case was in 1850 by Dr. Joseph Leidy, when he identified a worm "obtained from the mouth of a child" from the Philadelphia Academy (however, an earlier case may have been treated in patient Elizabeth Livingstone in the seventeenth century [2]).
A captive leucistic axolotl, perhaps the most well known form of the axolotl Face of a common or wild type axolotl The speckled wild type form Axolotl's gills (Ambystoma mexicanum) A sexually mature adult axolotl, at age 18–27 months, ranges in length from 15 to 45 cm (6 to 18 in), although a size close to 23 cm (9 in) is most common and ...
Virtual adoption comes with live updates on your axolotl’s health. In their main habitat the population density of Mexican axolotls (ah-ho-LOH'-tulz) has plummeted 99.5% in under two decades ...
But when the mother crocodile leaves the river to go get more hatchlings from her nest, predators threaten the first batch of baby crocodiles. The Kratt brothers must use the incredible Creature Power Suits—two of Aviva's inventions—to gain the abilities of crocodiles and protect the vulnerable crocodile hatchlings.
A family in the Texas Panhandle saved a baby bird by wrapping it in a warm tortilla during a backyard barbecue, Texas Monthly reported. The adorable rescue unfolded last Saturday, when the family ...
Bird flu is widespread in wild birds, and is causing outbreaks in poultry and dairy cows, and people who work around them. However, the CDC says that current public health risk is low. ((Cynthia ...
Fry harvesting, getting the brooding fish to open its mouth and release the fry, is important if the fry are to be reared artificially. In the case of endangered species, such as Asian arowana , harvesting may be supervised by an official to certify that the fish farm is a genuine producer of captive-bred fish.