List of herbivorous animals

This is a list of herbivorous animals. Herbivores are animals that eat plants. Herbivory is a form of consumption in which a heterotrophic organism consumes other organisms, principally autotrophs^[1] such as plants, algae and photosynthesizing bacteria. More generally, organisms that feed on autotrophs in general are known as 1st level consumers.

Mammals

Mammals (formally Mammalia) are a class of vertebrate, air-breathing animals whose females are characterized by the possession of mammary glands while both males and females are characterized by hair and/or fur, three middle ear bones used in hearing, and a neocortex region in the brain. Herbivorous mammals include:

Reptiles

Birds

Birds (class: Aves) are winged, bipedal, endothermic (warm-blooded), egg-laying, vertebrate animals. There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most varied of tetrapod vertebrates. Some birds are herbivorous, and some are not.

• Goose
• Hoatzin
• Parrots
  • Cockatoos
  • True parrots
  • New Zealand parrots

Amphibians

Some extant Lissamphibians display semi-herbivorous habits:

• Sirens^[4]
• Several tadpoles

Fish

• Herbivorous fish play a key role in maintaining healthy ecosystems, especially in tropical reefs, where they promote a balance between corals and macroalgae. Herbivorous fish include Acanthurus lineatus or lined surgeonfish (also known as blue banded surgeonfish, blue-lined surgeonfish, clown surgeonfish, pyjama tang, striped surgeonfish, and zebra surgeonfish), Acanthurus nigrofuscus known as the Lavender tang, Brown Tang, or Spot-Cheeked Surgeonfish, and Zebrasoma scopas known as the brown tang, twotone tang, scopas tang or brush-tail tang.^[5]
• The unicornfishes (Nasinae) genus is primarily herbivorous.
• Most of the nearly 100 species of the parrotfish family are herbivores.^[6][7]

Invertebrates

See also

• Mesocarnivore
• Hypercarnivore
• Herbivore
• Omnivore
• Piscivore

References