Animals that are detritus feeders, eating dead and decaying leaves and other decomposing plant and animal parts, as well as organic fecal matter.
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Detritivores, also known as detritophages, detritus feeders, detritus eaters, or saprophages, are heterotrophs that obtain nutrients by consuming detritus (decomposing plant and animal parts as well as feces). There are many kinds of invertebrates, vertebrates and plants that carry out coprophagy. By doing so all these detritivores, contribute to ...
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An animal who eats dead and decomposing animal or plant material.
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animal that eats decomposing organic matter
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(from the article `bivalve`) The primitive bivalve was almost certainly a detritivore (consumer of loose organic materials), and the modern palaeotaxodonts still pursue this mode ...
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Animal that consumes decomposing organic particles, deriving nutrition primarily from microbes on the particles. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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Heterotrophic organism that feeds on detritus. Examples of such organisms include earthworms, termites, slugs, snails, bacteria, and fungi. Two types of detritivores are generally recognized: decomposers and detritus feeders.
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an animal that eats detritus (dead organic material). A large detritivore, while feeding on detritus, may also ingest small living organisms, such as bacteria.
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(detritus feeder) animals and plants that consume detritus (decomposing organic material), and in doing so contribute to decomposition and the recycling of nutrients.
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detritivore, detritivory 1. Feeding on fragmented particulate or eating very small pieces, or particles, of organic matter. 2. An organism which feeds largely upon organic detritus.
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An organism which feeds on detritus, or nonliving organic matter.
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detritivores are animals whose diet is primarily composed of decaying organic matter.
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an organism that uses organic waste as a food source, as certain insects.
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An organism that consumes detritus, aka decomposing organic matter, to obtain nutrients. All decomposers are detritivores, including fungi, worms, and some bacteria.
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detri = to wear away (L); vorare = to devour, to eat (L)
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