Post-mortem human cadaver scavenging by marine crustaceans (Isopoda: Cirolanidae) in tropical waters
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2017Author
Tiemensma, Marianne
Bruce, Niel L.
Willan, Richard C.
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Animal feeding, both ante- and post-mortem, in freshwater and marine environments, has become topical recently. This report documents post-mortem scavenging by two identified species of marine crustaceans (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) on a human cadaver from the vicinity of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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http://hdl.handle.net/10394/25966https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-017-9926-x
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12024-017-9926-x