Tongue Worms
Pentastomida
Pentastomida are an enigmatic group of parasitic crustaceans commonly known as tongue worms due to the resemblance of the species of the genus Linguatula to a vertebrate tongue.
4 branches of this subclass, most-observed first
Porocephalida
orderPorocephalida
Cephalobaenida
orderCephalobaenida
Reighardiida
orderReighardiida
Raillietiellida
orderRaillietiellida
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 473794.