Lysiosquillina maculata
| Lysiosquillina maculata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Stomatopoda |
| Family: | Lysiosquillidae |
| Genus: | Lysiosquillina |
| Species: | L. maculata |
| Binomial name | |
| Lysiosquillina maculata (Fabricius, 1793) [1] | |
Lysiosquillina maculata, the zebra mantis shrimp or striped mantis shrimp, is a species of mantis shrimp found across the Indo-Pacific region from East Africa to the Galápagos and Hawaiian Islands.[2] At a length of up to 40 cm, L. maculata is the largest mantis shrimp in the world.[2] L. maculata may be distinguished from its congener L. sulcata by the greater number of teeth on the last segment of its raptorial claw, and by the colouration of the uropodal endopod, the distal half of which is dark in L. maculata but not in L. sulcata.[3] There is a small artisanal fishery for this species.[3]
Diet
They have a diet of many things including Porcupinefish, shrimp and blue ring octopus. Sometimes they also eat cuttlefish.
References
- ↑ "Lysiosquillina maculata (J. C. Fabricius, 1793)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved April 18, 2011.
- 1 2 Roy Caldwell. "Species: Lysiosquillina maculata". Roy's List of Stomatopods for the Aquarium. University of California Museum of Paleontology. Retrieved February 14, 2009.
- 1 2 "Lysiosquillidae" (PDF). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. pp. 835–837.
External links
Media related to Lysiosquillina maculata at Wikimedia Commons
In Prague sea aquarium
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