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mantis shrimp

NOUN
  1. tropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping appendages

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  • Photo Gallery : Marine Marvels A male peacock mantis shrimp plies the seafloor off Papua New Guinea.
  • The waters of Bali, Indonesia, are home to this otherworldly creature peacock mantis shrimp ( Odontodactylus scyllarus ) .
  • In insects the Orthoptera (especially grasshoppers), and in crustaceans the Decapoda (especially caridean shrimps), Stomatopoda (mantis shrimps) and calanoid Copepoda, are the only groups to far exceed a typically small range.
  • Special light-sensitive cells in mantis shrimp eyes perform similar functions to electronic sensors found in the mechanism of a DVD and CD player, the study said.
  • Much more on mantis shrimps at The Lurker's Guide to Stomatopods, which describes its other special features such as rolling like a wheel and having sophisticated trinocular vision with 10 types of receptor for detecting colour and polarisation. Smashing shrimps
  • Yes | No | Report from ggmack wrote 29 weeks 6 days ago beer can in mako stomach mantis shrimp in striper stomach I caught a channel catfish, about 12lbs, that had a partially digested muskrat in its stomach.
  • A lightning-fast predator, the mantis shrimp uses its powerful limbs to smash or spear its prey with a force equivalent to a .22 bullet.
  • Mantis shrimps also have an extraordinarily intricate colour vision system - humans have three-colour vision, they have 12-colour. The Sun
  • More than one unwary diver who has extended the hand of curiosity a little too far has lost a finger to the mantis shrimp's lightning stab - one of the fastest animal movements known.
  • Special light-sensitive cells in mantis shrimp eyes perform similar functions to electronic sensors found in the mechanism of a DVD and CD player, the study said.
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