What's the difference between saprophagous and saprozoic?
Saprophagous
Definition:
(a.) Feeding on carrion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The role of gamasid mites, hematophages and saprophages, characteristic inhabitants of nests of colonial birds, and of the tick Ixodes lividus in connection with their biology, coadaptation with hosts, microclimatic nest conditions, etc.
(2) Death was due to an extensive meningo-encephalomyelitis caused by a nematode that is ordinarily saprophagous.
(3) The most part of eggs and cercarians is eliminated in biocoenosis by biotic and abiotic environmental factors and is included into biocoenotic trophic chains through eliminators or saprophags.