Question: what is the smallest carnivous animal at a fully grown stage?

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  1. I don’t know. Does the praying mantis count?

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  2. Depends on how you define an animal?

    The worlds smallest fish is less than 10mm long, but is likely to be an omnivore (plant and meat eater) rather a true carnivore. Some gobies measuring 25-30mm are likely to be the smallest true carnivores, with a backbone.

    A tiny chameleon measuring 30-40mm is the smallest reptile carnivore.

    However many invertebrate species are are carnivores. Within these broad taxonomic groups, if I had to chose I would think id would be one of the mites. Their average size is between 0.5-3.0 mm, some even going down to less than 0.1mm in length. While many are parasitic others are also carnivorous.

    So a mite would probably be my pick of the smallest carnivorous animal at fully grown size.

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  3. I cant top the mite

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  4. I’ll have to leave this one to the biology types!

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