Isopods— an old thread
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From: imapodaddy
Subject: Nasty at Newport Pier
Hey guys, Need some help here. I haven't posted in a while but I love fishing at Newport. Anyhow, I took my daughters and nephews fishing on Saturday morning from 5-8am. My nephew caught a good-sized lizardfish. After about 15 minutes, my nephew was looking in our bucket and saw something crawling out of its head right behind its right eye socket...NASTY! This thing looked like a white-ish sand crab parasite thing. Then it crawled into the gills of the mack that was in the bucket with it. I wish I had taken a photo of it, but it was pretty weird. Any idea what this thing was?
Posted by mattyk04
I think you said it...a parasite...used to see them do the same thing on shiners from the Berkeley pier when I was a kid
Posted by imapodaddy
Link: http://www.glaucus.org.uk/3isopods1-TO.jpg
I think I just found it, an Isopod...
Posted by Sharkman20
Apparently there's an isopod parasite that lives on rockfish too. This one is really disturbing. It crawls inside the fish's mouth and starts eating it's tongue. After it devours the tongue it sits there where the fish's tongue used to be and acts as the "new tongue" and feeds by eating bits of food from whatever the fish eats. I've never caught any rockfish with this parasite yet but I'd probably throw them back if I did because that disturbs the hell out of me. haha.
Posted by Sharkman20
"Tongue Replacement"
http://www.equalium.net/imagenes/Tongue_replacemen_ isopod2.jpg
Here you go. Looks like something out of alien. Lol
Posted by JohnG
I saw one at Huntington this summer. It was carrying its babies on its belly. Man, they're creepy.
TURN IN POACHERS AND POLLUTERS 1-888-DFG CALTIP
Posted by bcoblentz
Especially when you're trying to take one off a fish and it hooks onto your finger...
Posted by Ken Jones
Attack of the "Giant" Isopods — I don't think you'll see this baby crawling out of a fish's mouth.
Posted by skipnstones
Edible at that size!
Posted by bcoblentz
THE definitive isopod picture
Posted by baymaster
Please tell me you did not eat those things.
Posted by bcoblentz
Haha, I should have mentioned, I didn't take that picture. It's been floating around on the Internet for a while.
Posted by songslinger
Tasty Steamed With Fermented Nuoc Mom
Posted by dkkim
Dude, those pics are making me sick.
Posted by baymaster
Those big ones look like a lobster tail with a head.
Posted by gyozadude
Link: http://www.gyozadude.com/
Posted by Ken Jones
Isopod pot stickers?
Posted by riorust
Seriously... When they are around a 1/2 pound... are they edible? Lobsters and Crab feast on the dead, disgusting as they may be these suckers (pun intended) feast on the living, any one tried one?
Excellent sport for those who like the more robust piscatorial indulgences.
Posted by: gyozadude
Had all sorts of -yabbies- downunder. I've had a bunch of isopod-looking critters down in Australia before. Some freshwater. Some salt or brackish water critters. They tasted wonderful. Some were call "yabbies." Others had names, which I can't remember. But great stuff for a stew or bouillabaisse.
Posted by thebui
Re: Tasty Steamed With Fermented Nuoc Mom — lol. nuoc mam —
I guess a lot of things do taste better with nuoc mam but even that makes me think twice and I've eaten some strange stuff.
Posted by bassmanben
They eat a saltwater shrimp that looks fairly similar to that in southern china. my wife's family loves them, i don't. I find myself a little skittish eating something that looks like a sea cockroach.
Posted by realdrums
What is the largest you have seen in person?
Posted by wings42
Maybe trilobites aren't really extinct. I have fossils of trilobites that look pretty much like these.
Posted by tackleholic
Or maybe mutant Sowbugs
Posted by rockfishboy [And he’s the expert—KJ]
There are two major groups of parasitic isopods in California, in the genera Nerocila and Rocinela. Both groups live in the mouths and gill cavities of fishes. They often puncture a gill raker and feed on the blood that leaks out. Interestingly, the guy who described many of the species, back in the 19th Century, named the genera Nerocila, Rocinela, Aerocila etc. as anagrams of his girl friend, Carolina. When I was in graduate school, I discovered and named a protozoan parasite that lives in the urinary bladder of rockfishes after my girl friend.
Posted by Ken Jones
What's this I heard about your ex? Or did the reporter get it wrong?
Posted by dompfa ben
As if it was possible for me to be a bigger fan of you, Dr. Milton... and then you go and share something like this... You're my hero.
Posted by rockfishboy
Here are a few more weird scientific names. In 1904, the entomologist G. W. Kirkaldy created the bug genera Pollychisme (Polly-kiss-me), Peggichisme, Marichisme, Dolichisme and Florichisme. A shellfish expert of my acquaintance once told me he wanted to name a new of species of the shellfish Chama (pronounced "Khama") "Chama sutra", but chickened out at the last minute. Clearly we sometimes have too much time on our hands.
To: PFIC Message Board
From: imapodaddy
Subject: Nasty at Newport Pier
Hey guys, Need some help here. I haven't posted in a while but I love fishing at Newport. Anyhow, I took my daughters and nephews fishing on Saturday morning from 5-8am. My nephew caught a good-sized lizardfish. After about 15 minutes, my nephew was looking in our bucket and saw something crawling out of its head right behind its right eye socket...NASTY! This thing looked like a white-ish sand crab parasite thing. Then it crawled into the gills of the mack that was in the bucket with it. I wish I had taken a photo of it, but it was pretty weird. Any idea what this thing was?
Posted by mattyk04
I think you said it...a parasite...used to see them do the same thing on shiners from the Berkeley pier when I was a kid
Posted by imapodaddy
Link: http://www.glaucus.org.uk/3isopods1-TO.jpg
I think I just found it, an Isopod...
Posted by Sharkman20
Apparently there's an isopod parasite that lives on rockfish too. This one is really disturbing. It crawls inside the fish's mouth and starts eating it's tongue. After it devours the tongue it sits there where the fish's tongue used to be and acts as the "new tongue" and feeds by eating bits of food from whatever the fish eats. I've never caught any rockfish with this parasite yet but I'd probably throw them back if I did because that disturbs the hell out of me. haha.
Posted by Sharkman20
"Tongue Replacement"
http://www.equalium.net/imagenes/Tongue_replacemen_ isopod2.jpg
Here you go. Looks like something out of alien. Lol
Posted by JohnG
I saw one at Huntington this summer. It was carrying its babies on its belly. Man, they're creepy.
TURN IN POACHERS AND POLLUTERS 1-888-DFG CALTIP
Posted by bcoblentz
Especially when you're trying to take one off a fish and it hooks onto your finger...
Posted by Ken Jones
Attack of the "Giant" Isopods — I don't think you'll see this baby crawling out of a fish's mouth.
Posted by skipnstones
Edible at that size!
Posted by bcoblentz
THE definitive isopod picture
Posted by baymaster
Please tell me you did not eat those things.
Posted by bcoblentz
Haha, I should have mentioned, I didn't take that picture. It's been floating around on the Internet for a while.
Posted by songslinger
Tasty Steamed With Fermented Nuoc Mom
Posted by dkkim
Dude, those pics are making me sick.
Posted by baymaster
Those big ones look like a lobster tail with a head.
Posted by gyozadude
Link: http://www.gyozadude.com/
Posted by Ken Jones
Isopod pot stickers?
Posted by riorust
Seriously... When they are around a 1/2 pound... are they edible? Lobsters and Crab feast on the dead, disgusting as they may be these suckers (pun intended) feast on the living, any one tried one?
Excellent sport for those who like the more robust piscatorial indulgences.
Posted by: gyozadude
Had all sorts of -yabbies- downunder. I've had a bunch of isopod-looking critters down in Australia before. Some freshwater. Some salt or brackish water critters. They tasted wonderful. Some were call "yabbies." Others had names, which I can't remember. But great stuff for a stew or bouillabaisse.
Posted by thebui
Re: Tasty Steamed With Fermented Nuoc Mom — lol. nuoc mam —
I guess a lot of things do taste better with nuoc mam but even that makes me think twice and I've eaten some strange stuff.
Posted by bassmanben
They eat a saltwater shrimp that looks fairly similar to that in southern china. my wife's family loves them, i don't. I find myself a little skittish eating something that looks like a sea cockroach.
Posted by realdrums
What is the largest you have seen in person?
Posted by wings42
Maybe trilobites aren't really extinct. I have fossils of trilobites that look pretty much like these.
Posted by tackleholic
Or maybe mutant Sowbugs
Posted by rockfishboy [And he’s the expert—KJ]
There are two major groups of parasitic isopods in California, in the genera Nerocila and Rocinela. Both groups live in the mouths and gill cavities of fishes. They often puncture a gill raker and feed on the blood that leaks out. Interestingly, the guy who described many of the species, back in the 19th Century, named the genera Nerocila, Rocinela, Aerocila etc. as anagrams of his girl friend, Carolina. When I was in graduate school, I discovered and named a protozoan parasite that lives in the urinary bladder of rockfishes after my girl friend.
Posted by Ken Jones
What's this I heard about your ex? Or did the reporter get it wrong?
Posted by dompfa ben
As if it was possible for me to be a bigger fan of you, Dr. Milton... and then you go and share something like this... You're my hero.
Posted by rockfishboy
Here are a few more weird scientific names. In 1904, the entomologist G. W. Kirkaldy created the bug genera Pollychisme (Polly-kiss-me), Peggichisme, Marichisme, Dolichisme and Florichisme. A shellfish expert of my acquaintance once told me he wanted to name a new of species of the shellfish Chama (pronounced "Khama") "Chama sutra", but chickened out at the last minute. Clearly we sometimes have too much time on our hands.