While cruising along, as many as 40 different parasites are attracted to sunfish, some carrying their own parasites. Its mouth is like a bird’s beak, and they eat (actually slurp) mostly jellyfish.

The freshwater species found to carry the parasites included bluegills, largemouth bass (pictured), green sunfish, bluegill-green sunfish hybrids, redear sunfish, black crappies, and the common carp ...