In the earth world, parasites are a huge family, the types and numbers are too large to count, when it comes to parasites, many people hate their teeth itching, because their behavior is too despicable, eating animal meat and drinking animal blood, such as summer mosquitoes, head lice, body lice and roundworms seen when I was a child.
Some parasites live in more despicable ways, and Japanese scientists have discovered a new fish parasite in Kagoshima, which parasitizes the boundary zone between the head and body of a scorpene, gnaws at the throat of the scorpene, and then clings to the throat and replaces it, which cannot be found without looking closely.
In October and November 2022, a research team led by 42-year-old Daisuke Ueno, an associate professor at Kagoshima University's graduate school, went to the coastal areas of Yakushima and Takeshima in Kagoshima to collect a new specimen of parasitic crustacean species, which was named "Uononodobotoke."
It is understood that the Uononodobotoke specimen was provided by Shigeru Harasaki, a 52-year-old dive shop owner on Yakushima, who found a rare parasite in scorpiscans while diving, and after the team's DNA analysis, it turned out to be a completely new parasite.
Uononodobotoke is 5~6 cm long, belongs to the genus Ceratophyceae, is a member of the coccidioidae, its claws are sharp and many, tightly attached to the throat skin of the scorpene, no matter how fast the scorpeon swims, it will not fall, gnaw the throat of the scorpion, slowly replace the throat of the scorpene.
A research team led by Daisuke Ueno found that Uononodobotoke has an elongated narrow body with an arched back, at least 6 pairs of feet on the body, and a tail fin on the tail, which can cause hemorrhagic damage to the host's epidermis, which will inevitably have serious negative effects on the host in the long run.
According to high-definition photo photos, Uononodobotoke still looks quite cute, white jade-like skin tone, like jade, the head has a pair of large protruding eyes, composed of black and white two colors, similar to the compound eyes of dragonflies, which indicates that its vision is very developed, far more than fish.
Scorpkey length is about 300 ~ 500 cm, large head, flat body, blunt snout, central bulge on the back, belongs to warm water area fish, like to hide in seaweed, coral, rock reef and sandy bottom, for crustacean parasites to create parasitic conditions, at this time, parasites can slowly climb to the scorpene.
There are photos showing that Uononodobotoke parasitizes on the brains of fish, eating meat and drinking blood, I believe that the fish must be very uncomfortable at this moment, but the fish can not get rid of this hateful parasite, can only slowly get used to its existence, and finally probably regard it as a part of the body.
Previously, researchers found a parasite that is even more despicable than Uononodobotoke, a parasite called "shrunken head fish lice", also known as tongue-eating lice, tongue-eating worms, the body length is about 2~3 cm, specializing in parasitic fish in the mouth, it and Uononodobotoke should be distantly related.
The larval tongue-eating tongue lice begin to enter the mouth of the fish, find the position of the fish's tongue, fix the body on the fish tongue with sharp claws, gnaw the blood supplied to the fish tongue, when the tongue atrophys due to lack of blood, the tongue-eating lice tail will connect to the root of the shrunken fish tongue and become the "tongue" of the fish, which is terrifying to think about.
This is why humans hate parasites, too mean, too shameless, although such parasites can not parasitize into the human body, but there are still many kinds of parasites can parasitize the human body, roundworms, schistosomiasis, scabies and African guinea worm worm, etc., some parasites are very terrible, modern medicine can not be treated.
Human parasites mainly enter the human body through the mouth, so do not drink raw water, wash your hands before meals, do not eat raw seafood food, Jiangsu and Zhejiang like to eat raw choking small crabs, with soy sauce and wine and then eat directly, even if it is clean and hygienic, there may still be parasites, everyone should pay special attention. For interesting scientific exploration content, please pay attention to the only WeChat public account: Interesting Exploration #Headline Creation Challenge #