Their diet is similarly variable, with herbivorous, omnivorous, and insectivorous species all being known.

Perhaps it was because she knew herself to be a member of an omnivorous species - evolved to eat anything, and to kill wantonly.

Most of them are herbivorous, but some are omnivorous or carnivorous species.

Although they also eat fruit, omnivorous species (pictured) were not found to have the same specialised surfaces.

Certain patron clans were ruled out because they would never have chosen an omnivorous species to raise.

Their diet is also variable, with herbivorous, omnivorous, and insectivorous species known.

It is an omnivorous species that will feed upon anything from vegetation, fish, insects, worms and even scavenge on carcass.

If this could be true of the herbivorous, what of the carnivorous or the omnivorous species?

The Melanotaenia praecox is considered to be an omnivorous species.

These omnivorous or herbivorous species can be useful in the household aquarium as scavengers, because they eat algae and debris.