Species
Cymothoa exigua (Tongue-eating louse)
Cymothoa exigua. Photo: (c) Fabio Moretzsohn, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
A parasitic marine isopod also known as the tongue-eating louse
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Subphylum: Crustacea (Crustaceans)
- Superclass: Multicrustacea (Typical crustaceans)
- Class: Malacostraca (Malacostracans)
- Subclass: Eumalacostraca (Decapods, isopods, and allies)
- Superorder: Peracarida (Amphipods, isopods, and allies)
- Order: Isopoda (Isopods)
- Suborder: Cymothoida (Predaceous and parasitic isopods)
- Superfamily: Cymothooidea (Fish-associated isopods)
- Family: Cymothoidae (Fish isopods)
- Genus: Cymothoa (Tongue lice)
- Species: Cymothoa exigua (Tongue-eating louse)
- Genus: Cymothoa (Tongue lice)
- Family: Cymothoidae (Fish isopods)
- Superfamily: Cymothooidea (Fish-associated isopods)
- Suborder: Cymothoida (Predaceous and parasitic isopods)
- Order: Isopoda (Isopods)
- Superorder: Peracarida (Amphipods, isopods, and allies)
- Subclass: Eumalacostraca (Decapods, isopods, and allies)
- Class: Malacostraca (Malacostracans)
- Superclass: Multicrustacea (Typical crustaceans)
- Subphylum: Crustacea (Crustaceans)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
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