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saprophagous

ADJECTIVE
  1. (of certain animals) feeding on dead or decaying animal matter

How To Use saprophagous In A Sentence

  • The wide range of trophic resources consumed by Geotrupidae dung beetles and the generally accepted saprophagous habits of the Scarabaeoidea ancestors suggest that the consumption of acorns constitutes a faculty that takes advantage of previous morphological adaptations. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • The family Anthomyiidae (Insecta: Diptera) is a globally distributed group of phytophagous, saprophagous, or coprophagous flies with over 1500 described species worldwide.
  • Based on the close relationship of thrips to the lophioneurid psocopteroids, it is likely that the Triassic and Jurassic thrips were saprophagous, just as the psocopterans and merothripids are today.
  • It is known that insects both of a creophagous and saprophagous nature, gradually diminish in relative numbers from the poles to the equator.
  • Adults and larvae of most species are facultative predators, but some are specialist predators, some are mycophagous or saprophagous or even phytophagous, occasionally damaging flowers and turf.
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