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Durophagy


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    • Durophagous diet
    • Durophagous feeding
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    • found: Work cat.: Crofts, S.B. The functional morphology of hard-prey crushing teeth, 2015:abstr. (Durophagy is the consumption of hard-shelled prey-items, like shelled molluscs and crustaceans with hard exoskeletons) p. 52 (A durophagous diet requires high bite forces to induce failure in hard-shelled prey items, and in modern taxa we see features like enlarged sites for jaw muscle attachment and modifications to increase mechanical advantage of the jaws in durophagous lizards)
    • found: YourDictionary.com, Mar. 31, 2020(durophagy: The eating of hard-shelled organisms)
    • found: Biology letters, June 2007:p. 314 (Durophagy, the macropredatory consumption of prey protected by a mineralized skeleton)
    • found: Journal of experimental biology, May 2011:p. 1655 (vertebrates that process and consume robust food resources (e.g. bone, mollusks, seeds), a foraging mode known as durophagy)
    • found: Evolution, July 2013:p. 1975 (adaptations toward durophagy in the skull of carnivores)
    • found: The American naturalist, June 2014:p. E168 (durophagy (eating hard-shelled prey); durophagy in moray eels) p. E169 (diet of hard-shelled prey (i.e., durophagy))
    • found: Florida scientist, winter 2001:p. 21 (consumption of hard prey (durophagy))
    • found: Journal of herpetology, June 1984:p. 186 (durophagous feeding adaptations) p. 189 (durophagy in several families of fossil and modern lizards)
    • found: Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology, Feb. 2010:p. 95 (the bonnethead shark, Sphyrna tiburo, is a durophagous member of the family Sphyrnidae. Its diet in South Florida waters consists almost entirely of blue crabs, which are crushed or ingested whole. This abundant coastal predator's feeding mechanism is specialized for the consumption of hard prey, including a modified biting pattern and molariform teeth) p. 96 (durophagy in chondrichthyan fishes) p. 99 (durophagous diet)
    • found: Fossil species of Florida website, via Florida Museum of Natural History website, Mar. 31, 2020:Glossary of terms (durophagy: The eating behavior of animals that eat hard-shelled organisms or those with exoskeletons, such as mollusks or crabs. Durophagous (adjective form))
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    • 2020-03-31: new
    • 2020-08-06: revised
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