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Detritivores (also known as detrivores, detritophages, detritus feeders or detritus eaters) are heterotrophs that obtain nutrients by consuming detritus (decomposing plant and animal parts as well as feces). [1] There are many kinds of invertebrates, vertebrates, and plants that carry out coprophagy.
A characteristic type of food chain called the detritus cycle takes place involving detritus feeders (detritivores), detritus and the microorganisms that multiply on it. For example, mud flats are inhabited by many univalves which are detritus feeders. When these detritus feeders take in detritus with microorganisms multiplying on it, they ...
Psocids can affect the ecosystems in which they reside. Many psocids can affect decomposition by feeding on detritus, especially in environments with lower densities of predacious micro arthropods that may eat psocids. [14] The nymph of a psocid species, Psilopsocus mimulus, is the first known wood-boring psocopteran. These nymphs make their ...
Laevicaulis stuhlmanni is a grazer and detritus feeder. [2] Distribution. Laevicaulis stuhlmanni occurs naturally in tropical regions of Africa, ...
Sphaeromatidae are browsers or detritus feeders. Xynosphaera appear to have incisory mandibles; [2] Xynosphaera colemani burrows into the tissue of alcyonacean corals. [3] Some genera of Sphaeromatidae associate with sponges, particularly Oxinasphaera. [4]
Most oligochaetes are detritus feeders, although some genera are predaceous, such as Agriodrilus and Phagodrilus. The digestive tract is essentially a tube running the length of the body, but has a powerful muscular pharynx immediately behind the mouth cavity. In many species, the pharynx simply helps the worm suck in food, but in many aquatic ...
Eupolymnia crassicornis are deposit feeders that primarily feed at evening or night. They extend their ciliated tentacles out and along the sea-floor to gather dead organic matter (detritus) that originated as diatoms and other planktonic microorganisms.
This species is a detritus feeder, eating whatever is found in the film on top of the mud where it lives, including many microscopic marine plants. References