39
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 1:
Line 1: + +
no edit summary
A '''detritivore''' is an [[organism]] that consumes [[detritus]].<ref>http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/fringe/glossary.html</ref> On land, examples include, [[earthworm]]s, [[wood lice]], [[slug]]s and [[dung fly|dung flies]] while marine creatures include [[sea star]]s, [[lobster]]s, [[fiddler crab]]s, [[sea cucumber]]s and [[marine worm]]s. In the Bible these creatures are considered unclean and forbidden.
A '''detritivore''' is an [[organism]] that consumes [[detritus]].<ref>http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/fringe/glossary.html</ref> On land, examples include, [[earthworm]]s, [[wood lice]], [[slug]]s and [[dung fly|dung flies]] while marine creatures include [[sea star]]s, [[lobster]]s, [[fiddler crab]]s, [[sea cucumber]]s and [[marine worm]]s. In the Bible these creatures are considered unclean and forbidden.
{{cquote|And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you.|||Leviticus 11:10}}
==References==
==References==