Durophagy

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Durophagy

Durophagy is to eat (live from) hard or hard shell

Shell

Shell may refer to* Exoskeleton, or exoskeleton, including those of molluscs, turtles, insects and crustaceans* Seashell, the shells of various marine animals, especially marine mollusks...
ed organisms, shuch as coral

Coral

Corals are marine organisms from the class Anthozoa and exist as small sea anemone?like polyps, typically in colonies of many identical individuals....
s, bivalves or crab

Crab

Crabs are Decapoda crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" , or where the reduced abdomen is entirely hidden under the thorax....
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Durophagy is to eat (live from) hard or hard shell

Shell

Coral

Corals are marine organisms from the class Anthozoa and exist as small sea anemone?like polyps, typically in colonies of many identical individuals....
s, bivalves or crab

Crab

Crabs are Decapoda crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" , or where the reduced abdomen is entirely hidden under the thorax....
s . The expression is mostly used in connection with fish

Fish

A fish is any marine biology vertebrate animal that is typically ectothermic , covered with scale , and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins....
, but see Pregil (1984) for the expression used for reptiles. Durophagy requires special adaptions, such as blunt, strong teeth and a heavy jaw.