piscivore
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thumb|Northern water snake (Nerodia sipedon) eating a [[catfish]] thumb|An Atlantic puffin with a mouth full of [[lesser sand eels]]
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Discussion
- Examples of extant piscivores
- Arachnids
- Birds
- Fish
- Mammals
- Reptiles
- Extinct and prehistoric piscivores
- Fish
- Reptiles
- References
thumb|Northern water snake (Nerodia sipedon) eating a [[catfish]] thumb|An Atlantic puffin with a mouth full of [[lesser sand eels]]
A piscivore () is a carnivorous animal that primarily eats fish. Fish were the diet of early tetrapod evolution (via water-bound amphibians during the Devonian period); insectivory came next; then in time, the more terrestrially adapted reptiles and synapsids evolved herbivory.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “piscivore” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.