Cymothoa Exigua

Cymothoa Exigua, a crustacean that eats out the tongue of a fish and replaces it with it's own body. But what happens if it gets into a human's mouth?

Done as a final project for a literature class. It's 2minutes and 10 seconds long, which makes it my longest animation to date. It was all done over the course of about four, three day weekends.
ENJOY!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Cymothoa
• Exigua
• tongue
• parasite
• office
• crustacean
• mushroomboy5
• Adam
• Shipp

[TehNetherlands]

That's great :D I love this because I've just read the wikipedia article on this bug. The last thing I could've imagined was someone making a cartoon out of it xD

[neildangad]

this gives me nightmares

[Redwards111]

@greenpilgrim50 fish don't have tongues they have something that resembles a tongue but has no taste buds and limited movement called a basihyal

[greenpilgrim50]

@eminatic lol, that's what i said, i never knew fish had tongues!

[markoherrera]

Nature is the most awesome thing ever! and this cartoon is next!

[Rufochka]

AWESOME DUDE!

[JournalistCR]

Yeah, totally scaring! I got one on my friend fish last night.

[MultiUSD]

xD

[mixitman92]

I cringed at the alarm noise DX can't stand it...

[8x13Wolf]

@Worrun Someone's got a mouth full of Cymothoa Exigua.

[eminatic]

fish have tongues?