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Detritivores (also
known as
detrivores, detritophages,
detritus feeders or
detritus eaters) are
heterotrophs that
obtain nutrients by
consuming detritus...
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Remipedia (blind,
venomous crustaceans),
Cephalocarida (translucent
aquatic detrivores), and
Branchiopoda (freshwater, non-decapod 'shrimp'). Allotriocarida...
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Discarded remains of
trout also
provide a
source of
nutrients for scavengers,
detrivores and
riparian florae,
making trout keystone species across aquatic and...
- are most available. Nematodes,
which are
predominantly non-selective
detrivores, are
tolerable to the
anoxic conditions at the base of blue holes, allowing...
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drifts of fine sediment, and landslides. Most
organisms are
scavengers and
detrivores. Over 400
species are
currently known from
hadal ecosystems, many of which...
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seabed that
scientists had not
previously known to exist. Some like the
detrivores rely on
organic material falling to the
ocean floor.
Others cluster round...
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relatively few
species inhabit Europe and
North America. They are also
detrivores and many
species eat wood,
having specialised guts with
symbiotic protozoa...
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reduced and vestigial. Most
members of the
genus Eleodes are
primarily detrivores feeding on
plant and
animal debris, some
species are more
inclined to...
- high-water mark on the seas****.
Limax maximus is omnivorous. It is a
detrivore,
cleaning up dead
plants and fungi, and a
carnivore known to
pursue other...
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mature at
three years while females are
mature in four. The
adults are
detrivores which, in
addition to
feeding on sand, also eat
algae and
vegetable matter...
