pearlfish
- n found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds
- The pearlfish is impressive in numbers as well as appetite.
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- Absurd Creature of the Week: This Fish Swims Up a Sea Cucumber's Butt and Eats Its Gonads
If Buddhists are right about that whole reincarnation thing, it'd be hard to imagine what you'd have to do wrong to die and come back as a sea cucumber. One minute you're human and the next you're crawling around the seafloor as what is essentially a mobile intestine, hoovering up food at one end and expelling it through the other. And then, inevitably, the pearlfish would find you.
Feb. 21, 2014 - Wired News