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narrow-legged squat lobster

Munida tenuimana

Classification

Family
Munididae

Necrophages (also known as carrion feeders) are animals that feed on decomposing dead animal biomass, such as the muscle and soft tissue of carcasses or corpses. The term derives from Greek nekros, meaning 'dead', and phagein, meaning 'to eat'. Many hundreds of necrophagous species have been identified including invertebrates in the insect, malacostracan and gastropod classes and vertebrates such as vultures, hyenas, quolls and wolves.

Distribution

(c) Christoph Noever/Universitet i Bergen, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
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Norway · 93Canada · 1Sweden · 1