Detritivores, also known as detritophages or detritus feeders or detritus eaters or saprophages, are heterotrophs that obtain nutrients by consuming detritus (decomposing plant and animal parts as well as organic fecal matter). Typical detritivorous animals include millipedes, woodlice, dung flies, slugs, many terrestrial worms, sea stars, sea cucumbers, fiddler crabs, and some sedentary polychaetes such as amphitrites (Amphitritinae, worms of the family terebellidae) and other terebellids. For more information, visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detritivore?
Many crabs are scavengers and detritivores.
Sea Stars ans Sea Cucumbers are marine detritivores
Ostracods
decomposer
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every mode of feeding is found in fish, herbivore, carnivore, parasite, filter feeder, and detritus feeder
The Catseye sea snail is a filter feeder that feeds on Microlagae, detritus, and small algae.e.g. Coralline, Neptune's necklace.
When these detritus feeders take in detritus with micro-organisms multiplying on it, they mainly break down and absorb the micro-organisms, which are rich in proteins, and excrete the detritus, which is mostly complex carbohydrates, having hardly broken it down at all.Detritus feeders contribute to the carbon cycle through respiration by taking up carbon and converting some of it to CO2 which is to be used by plants to produce carbohydrates.
The difference is that is that detritivore feeds on large parts of decaying plant, animal matter, and on waste material. A decomposer consumes and breaks down dead organisms or waste matter into simple substances. They both get nutrition from dead organic matter. The difference is that detritivores actually eat the organic matter (like earthworms eating their way through the soil) and decomposers secrete enzymes to digest the organic matter and then absorb the resulting molecules (like bacteria or fungi do).
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Detritus feeders(a.k.a, sapraphages, or ditritivores) ehterotrophs that get nutrients by comsuming detritus**decomposing organic matter**Example___________EarthwormsWoodlice
A lancelet is a filter feeder with no brain, eyes, or heart. A sea squirt is an example of a lancelet.
The type of organism is called a detritivore,detritophage, detritus feeder, or saprophage and obtain their nutrients from dead plant, animal or excreted materials. Once they process the material, it is considered decomposed.
detritus is everywhere. Land,water, and air.
detritus is formed by microorganisms that are found basically every where
An organism that consumes detritus- decaying plant/ animal matter, including manure. An earthworm would be an example.