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Post-mortem human cadaver scavenging by marine crustaceans (Isopoda: Cirolanidae) in tropical waters
Marianne Tiemensma1, Niel L Bruce2,3, Richard C Willan4
1Forensic Pathology Unit, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Marianne.Tiemensma@nt.gov.au.
Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology
|October 14, 2017
Abstract:
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.