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My guess: Put some lipstick on a Cymothoa exigua and you'll get more stem cells than you know what to do with.
David Quigg: Is a Pig With Lipstick Really Still a Pig? 2008
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The Labi Hills of the Brunei-Sarawak border support a diverse mosaic of forests on podzols and sandy yellow soils, and these are rich in endemics, including two palms, Livistona exigua and Pinanga yassinii, known only from podzolized ridges in the Ulu Ingei area.
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The tongue-eating isopod, Cymothoa exigua, lives in the mouth of the rose snapper (Lutjanus guttatus) and causes tongue stub and the floor of the fish's mouth and resembles the missing tongue!
Crustacea 2008
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Si nulla digna laesio, ventriculo, quoniam in hac melancholia capitis, exigua nonnunquam ventriculi pathemata coeunt, duo enim haec membra sibi invicem affectionem transmittunt.
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Qui in Delphis futura praedicunt vates, et in Dodona sacerdotes furentes quidem multa jocunda Graecis deferunt, sani vero exigua am nulla.
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Brandt was especially struck by a tiny amoeboid, epistominella exigua, that seems to thrive at depths below 6000 metres as well as in much shallower waters, showing "a previously unsuspected ability to adapt to a wide range of pressures".
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Cymothoa exigua, a crustacean, is the only known parasite that effectively replaces a body organ.
Boing Boing: September 18, 2005 - September 24, 2005 Archives 2005
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The bug – which has the scientific name cymothoa exigua – was discovered inside the mouth of a red snapper bought from a London fishmonger.
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Neem showed considerable potential for controlling various insect pests such as Plutella xylostella, Spodoptera litura, S. exigua, Hellula undalis, Phyllocnistis citrella, Helicoverpa armigera, Ohiomyia phaseloi, Nephotettix virescens and spider mites
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Although the buffalo fly (Siphona exigua) affects the animals, other pests such as the warble fly and the screwworm, for example, seldom affect healthy buffaloes.
1 Introduction 1981
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