Deposit feeder

Deposit feeder

An organism that derives its nutrition by consuming some fraction of a soft sediment.

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deposit feeder

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An animal that feeds on nutrients in the sediments.

deposit feeder

Biology; Marine biology

An organism that derives its nutrition by consuming some fraction of a soft sediment.

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