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Mantis Shrimp
Related Category: Zoology: Invertebrates
marine crustacean characterized by a pair of enlarged appendages, called maxillipeds, that form powerful claws for seizing prey.
Peacock Mantis Shrimp Odontodactylus scyallarus
A relative of shrimp and lobsters, the brightly colored peacock mantis shrimp is a voracious predator.
Clearnose Skates
Mantis Shrimp
Sea Stars, etc.
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Squilla sp. - Clown mantis shrimp
Subphylum Chelicerate (chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Spiders, scorpions, mites) ...
The blacktip reef shark is a fast, pursuit predator that prefers reef fishes, but also feeds on stingrays, crabs, mantis shrimps and other crustaceans, cephalopods, and other mollusks.
Detailed vision was an evolutionary trump card for mantis shrimps and trilobites.
Earliest eyes
Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives ...
Lots of kinds of shrimp: A number of more or less unrelated crustaceans also have the word "shrimp" in their common name. Examples are the mantis shrimp and the opposum or mysid shrimp, both of which belong to the same class as the true shrimp, ...
2. Crayfish are in the class Malacostraca along with isopods (sowbugs), amphipods, euphausiids (krill), beachhoppers, mantis shrimp, and a very large order, the Decapoda, that contains many kinds of shrimp, and crabs.
Odontodactylus scyllarus (Peacock mantis shrimp)
[edit] Mammalia
[edit] Afrosoricida ...
Giant Deep Sea Isopod (Bathynomus giganteus) Cirolanidae, Giant Spider Crab, Green Crab, Hermit Crab (Pagorus samuelis), Hingebeak Shrimp, Humpback Shrimp, Kelp Crab, Krill, Land Hermit Crab, Lined Shore Crab (Pachygrapsus crassipes), Mantis Shrimp, ...
Small fish (i.e. mullet, groupers, theraponids, jacks, mojarras, slipjaws, wrasses, surgeonfish, sillinginids), mollusks (i.e. cuttlefish, squid, octopi), and crustaceans (i.e. shrimp and mantis shrimp)
GESTATION: ...
The mantis shrimp can even break the glass of an aquarium or split a man's thumb to the bone with one strike. But in spite of their impressive armor and fierce weaponry, the crustaceans do occasionally meet their match.
Body of Mantis Shrimp larva
Bogong Moth
Bombardier Beetle
Bombardier Beetle specimen
Bone Detective - Stages 4-5
Bone Detective Stages 4-5 Teacher Notes
Bone saw, autopsy instrument
Bones and Bellies - Stage 3
Bones of a fish ...
 See also: Mantis, Shrimp, Crustacean, Coral, Lobster
  
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