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Mantis shrimps are carnivorous marine crustaceans of the order Stomatopoda (from Ancient Greek στόμα (stóma) ' mouth ' and ποδός (podós) ' foot ').Stomatopods branched off from other members of the class Malacostraca around 400 million years ago, [2] with more than 520 extant species of mantis shrimp known.
Odontodactylus scyllarus, commonly known as the peacock mantis shrimp, harlequin mantis shrimp, painted mantis shrimp, clown mantis shrimp, rainbow mantis shrimp, or simply mantis shrimp, is a large stomatopod native to the epipelagic seabed across the Indo-Pacific, ranging from the Marianas to East Africa, and as far South as Northern KwaZulu Natal in South Africa.
Stomatopoda: Superfamily: Gonodactyloidea: Family: Pseudosquillidae Manning, 1977 [1] The Pseudosquillidae are a family of mantis shrimp containing four genera and 11 ...
Hemisquilla is a genus of mantis shrimp, and the only genus in the family Hemisquillidae. [1] It contains four species distributed in Australia and the Americas. Species in the genus typically eat snails, fish, rock oysters, and smaller crustaceans like crabs. They are preyed upon by larger bony fishes and cephalopods. [1]
Like all mantis shrimps, banded mantis shrimps dig burrows in the sea floor. [2] Banded mantis shrimp burrows are relatively deep, descending vertically into soft substrate . [ 1 ] Unlike other clades, however, they rarely leave their burrows, preferring to ambush their prey from the safety of their homes.
Squilla mantis for sale at a Catalan market. S. mantis is the only native stomatopod to be fished for on a commercial scale in the Mediterranean. Over 7,000 t is caught annually, 85% of which is caught on Italian shores of the Adriatic Sea, [9] with further production in the Ionian Sea, off Sardinia, off the coast of Catalonia and off the Balearic Islands.
Squillidae is a family of mantis shrimp, the only family in the superfamily Squilloidea. [1] The type genus is Squilla . [ 2 ] It is the stomatopod family with the most genera , [ 2 ] as follows: [ 3 ]
Stomatopoda; Aeschronectida † Palaeostomatopoda † Hoplocarida is a subclass of crustaceans. The only extant members are the mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda), ...