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June 5, 2015 12:19 PM Subscribe
Our friends, the ribbon worms, have made another appearance in southeast Asia. (warning: kind of gross) Nemertea previously.
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Proboscis less impressive this time, but that's a remarkable jade green.
posted by ryanshepard at 12:26 PM on June 5, 2015
Proboscis less impressive this time, but that's a remarkable jade green.
posted by ryanshepard at 12:26 PM on June 5, 2015
It's exactly the same color as the neon relish they put on Chicago-style hot dogs.
posted by theodolite at 12:29 PM on June 5, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by theodolite at 12:29 PM on June 5, 2015 [3 favorites]
From the Wikipedia page, a description of the larval stage and its metamorphosis to a juvenile worm:
However, many members of the order Heteronemertea and the palaeonemertean family Hubrechtidae form a pilidium larva, which can capture unicellular algae and which Maslakova describes as like a deerstalker cap with the ear flaps pulled down. It has a gut which lies across the body, a mouth between the "ear flaps", but no anus. A small number of imaginal discs form, encircling the archenteron (developing gut) and coalesce to form the juvenile. When it is fully formed, the juvenile bursts out of the larva body and usually eats it during this catastrophic metamorphosis.[25]
posted by mr_roboto at 12:39 PM on June 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
However, many members of the order Heteronemertea and the palaeonemertean family Hubrechtidae form a pilidium larva, which can capture unicellular algae and which Maslakova describes as like a deerstalker cap with the ear flaps pulled down. It has a gut which lies across the body, a mouth between the "ear flaps", but no anus. A small number of imaginal discs form, encircling the archenteron (developing gut) and coalesce to form the juvenile. When it is fully formed, the juvenile bursts out of the larva body and usually eats it during this catastrophic metamorphosis.[25]
posted by mr_roboto at 12:39 PM on June 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
MetaFilter: A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger.
posted by Sangermaine at 12:40 PM on June 5, 2015
posted by Sangermaine at 12:40 PM on June 5, 2015
pilidium larva … which Maslakova describes as like a deerstalker cap with the ear flaps pulled down
I think this is it.
[via Smithsonian]
posted by Kabanos at 12:55 PM on June 5, 2015
I think this is it.
[via Smithsonian]
posted by Kabanos at 12:55 PM on June 5, 2015
I wanted to post a funny comment but I'm literally speechless. Maybe the ribbon worm's got my (proboscis) tongue.
posted by I-baLL at 1:03 PM on June 5, 2015
posted by I-baLL at 1:03 PM on June 5, 2015
No, jackass, not over there, that is us! Aw screw it I'm going over this way.
posted by poe at 1:19 PM on June 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by poe at 1:19 PM on June 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
From the "recommended links" section of the post: what is this creature found in a tuna can?
posted by tickingclock at 3:46 PM on June 5, 2015
posted by tickingclock at 3:46 PM on June 5, 2015
BRB, tickingclock, throwing all my cans of tuna in an incinerator.
Just like The Host predicted, when confronted with a monstrous abomination, people would probably just crowd around it with a camera. We gotta show John Carpenter's The Thing to more people, so their instinct is to immediately set it on fire.
posted by Solon and Thanks at 4:04 PM on June 5, 2015
Just like The Host predicted, when confronted with a monstrous abomination, people would probably just crowd around it with a camera. We gotta show John Carpenter's The Thing to more people, so their instinct is to immediately set it on fire.
posted by Solon and Thanks at 4:04 PM on June 5, 2015
My friends in Taiwan warn me not to swim in the ghost month, and now I've got a pretty good graphic for a dangerous ghost in my head.
posted by frumiousb at 5:16 PM on June 5, 2015
posted by frumiousb at 5:16 PM on June 5, 2015
More on the tongue-eating louse:
posted by tickingclock at 8:22 PM on June 5, 2015
This parasite enters fish through the gills, and then attaches itself to the fish's tongue. The female attaches to the tongue and the male attaches on the gill arches beneath and behind the female. [...] The parasite destroys the fish's tongue, and then attaches itself to the stub of what was once its tongue and becomes the fish's new tongue.lol no
Cymothoa exigua extracts blood through the claws on its front, causing the tongue to atrophy from lack of blood. The parasite then replaces the fish's tongue by attaching its own body to the muscles of the tongue stub. The fish is able to use the parasite just like a normal tongue. It appears that the parasite does not cause any other damage to the host fish.still no
posted by tickingclock at 8:22 PM on June 5, 2015
From the "recommended links" section of the post: what is this creature found in a tuna can?
You really buried the lede there, tickingclock - given that the actual title of that page is, "Conflicting identifications for head found in tuna can".
posted by ryanshepard at 8:25 PM on June 5, 2015
You really buried the lede there, tickingclock - given that the actual title of that page is, "Conflicting identifications for head found in tuna can".
posted by ryanshepard at 8:25 PM on June 5, 2015
yeah, marketing is not my greatest strength
posted by tickingclock at 8:28 PM on June 5, 2015
posted by tickingclock at 8:28 PM on June 5, 2015
Okay, and going down the rabbit-hole of tongue-eating parasite fish led me to: "Rare 'Sea Serpent' Oarfish Found on California Island (see, ryanshepard? I can learn!). Warning: photo of decomposing leviathan head.
posted by tickingclock at 8:33 PM on June 5, 2015
posted by tickingclock at 8:33 PM on June 5, 2015
Metafilter: going down the rabbit-hole of tongue-eating parasite fish
posted by AdamCSnider at 10:39 PM on June 5, 2015
posted by AdamCSnider at 10:39 PM on June 5, 2015
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