Mantis shrimps
Lysiosquilla maculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Crustacean Class: Malacostraca Subclass: Hoplocarida Calman, 1904 Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria Placozoa Subregnum Bilateria  Acoelomorpha  Orthonectida  Rhombozoa  Myxozoa  Superphylum Deuterostomia     Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ... Subphyla and Classes Subphylum Trilobitomorpha Trilobita - Trilobites (extinct) Subphylum Chelicerata Arachnida - Spiders, Scorpions, etc. ... Classes Remipedia Cephalocarida Branchiopoda Ostracoda Maxillopoda Malacostraca The crustaceans (Crustacea) are a large group of arthropods (55,000 species), usually treated as a subphylum. ... Orders Not necessarily a complete list: Leptostraca Stomatopoda Bathynellacea Thermosbaenacea Mysidacea Cumacea Amphipoda Isopoda Tanaidacea Euphausiacea Amphionidacea Decapoda Peracarida The Malacostraca are the largest subgroup of crustaceans, and include most of the animals that non-experts recognise as crustaceans, including the decapods (such as crabs, mole crabs, lobsters and true... 1904 is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Order: Stomatopoda Latreille, 1817 Pierre André Latreille. ... 1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
Families
Superfamily Bathysquillidoidea Family Bathysquillidae Family Indosquillidae Superfamily Erythrosquilloidea Family Erythrosquillidae Superfamily Gonodactyloidea Family Alainosquillidae Family Eurysquillidae Family Gonodactylidae Family Hemisquillidae Family Odontodactylidae Family Protosquillidae Family Pseudosquillidae Family Takuidae Superfamily Lysiosquilloidea Family Coronididae Family Heterosquillidae Family Lysiosquillidae Family Nannosquillidae Family Tetrasquillidae Superfamily Squilloidea Family Harpiosquillidae Family Squillidae Superfamily uncertain Family Parasquillidae Family Sculdidae

The Mantis shrimps make up the order, Stomatopoda, of crustaceans. Stomatopoda is part of the class Malacostraca, the largest class of crustaceans, which also includes crabs and crayfish. Scientific classification or biological classification refers to how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Classes Class Branchiopoda Subclass Phyllopoda Subclass Sarsostraca Class Remipedia Order Enantiopoda Order Nectiopoda Class Cephalocarida Order Brachypoda Class Maxillopoda Subclass Mystacocarida Subclass Copepoda Subclass Branchiura Subclass Pentastomida Subclass Tantulocarida Subclass Thecostraca Infraclass Cirripedia Class Ostracoda Order Metacopina Subclass Myodocopa Subclass Podocopa Class Malacostraca Subclass Eumalacostraca Subclass Hoplocarida Subclass Phyllocarida The... Scientific classification or biological classification refers to how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Orders Not necessarily a complete list: Leptostraca Stomatopoda Bathynellacea Thermosbaenacea Mysidacea Cumacea Amphipoda Isopoda Tanaidacea Euphausiacea Amphionidacea Decapoda Peracarida The Malacostraca are the largest subgroup of crustaceans, and include most of the animals that non-experts recognise as crustaceans, including the decapods (such as crabs, mole crabs, lobsters and true... Sections Dromiacea Raninoida Heterotremata Thoracotremata The term crab is often applied to several different groups of short (nose to tail) decapods with thick exoskeletons, but only members of the Brachyura are true crabs; other taxa, such as hermit crabs, porcelain crabs, king crabs, and horseshoe crabs are, despite superficial similarities... The word crayfish can mean:- Sea crayfish, also called spiny lobster or rock lobster. ...

Around 400 species of mantis shrimp have currently been described worldwide. They are neither shrimps nor mantids, but receive their name purely from the physical resemblance to both the terrestrial praying mantis and the shrimp. In biology, a species is, loosely speaking, a group of related organisms that share a more or less distinctive form and are capable of interbreeding. ... Superfamilies and families Alpheoidea Alpheidae - snapping shrimps Barbouriidae Hippolytidae Ogyrididae Atyoidea Atyidae Bresilioidea Agostocarididae Alvinocarididae Bresiliidae Disciadidae Mirocarididae Campylonotoidea Bathypalaemonellidae Campylonotoidae Crangonoidea Crangonoidea Glyphocrangonoidea Galatheacaridoidea Galatheacarididae Nematocarcinoidea Eugonatonotidae Nematocarcinidae Rhynchocinetidae Xiphocarididae Oplophoroidea Oplophoridae Palaemonoidea Anchistioididae Desmocarididae Euryrhynchidae Gnathophyllidae Hymenoceridae Kakaducarididae Palaemonidae Typhlocarididae Pandaloidea Pandalidae Thalassocarididae Pasiphaeoidea Pasiphaeidae Physetocaridoidea Physetocarididae Procaridoidea... Mantis is Greek for prophet. ...

Growing to a potential length of 20-30 cm (though most species are much smaller), these aggressive and (mostly) solitary sea creatures spend most of their time hiding within rock formations, or burrowing intricate passageways in the seabed, where they patiently wait for prey. They rarely exit their homes except to feed and relocate. Most species live in tropical and subtropical seas, for example off the Florida and California coasts and around Thailand, although some live in temperate seas. A centimetre (American spelling: centimeter, symbol: cm) is an SI unit of length. ... State nickname: Sunshine State Other U.S. States Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Governor Jeb Bush (R) Official languages English Area 170,451 km² (22nd)  - Land 137,374 km²  - Water 30,486 km² (17. ... State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ...

Called "sea locusts" by ancient Assyrians, and now sometimes referred to as "thumb splitters" by modern divers - because of the relative ease the creature has in mutilating small appendages - mantis shrimp sport powerful claws, formed like jackknives, that they use to attack prey. Assyrians (ܐܫܘܪܝܶܐ) is the name of a people from Northern Mesopotamia in Middle East, today split in three parts; Turkey, Syria and Iraq. ... Early ideas of autonomous under-water systems appear in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Scuba diving is the use of independent breathing equipment to stay underwater for long periods of time for recreational diving and professional diving. ... Jackknife is: a pocket knife An undesirable configuration of a tractor and semi-trailer. ...

The species are commonly separated into two distinct groups determined by the manner of claws they possess: "spearers" are armed with spiny appendages topped with barbed tips, used to stab and snag prey and have a blunt, calcified club on the elbow, while "smashers" possess a much more developed club and a more rudimentary spear; the club is used to bludgeon and smash their meals apart. Both types strike by rapidly unfolding and swinging their raptorial claws at the prey, and are capable of inflicting serious damage on victims significantly greater in size than themselves. These two weapons are employed with blinding quickness, rapidly reaching 10 m/s from a standing start, and can strike with a force comparable to a small-caliber bullet. A claw is a curved pointed growth found at the end of a toe or finger, or in arthropods, of the tarsus. ... An appendage is, in general, an external body part that projects from the body, or a natural prolongation or projection from a part of any organism. ... Metre per second (U.S. spelling: meter per second) is an SI derived unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector), defined by distance in metres divided by time in seconds. ... The word caliber (American English) or calibre (British English) designates the interior diameter of a tube or the exterior diameter of a wire or rod. ... 0. ...

Some mantis shrimp, which are sometimes kept as aquarium pets, have managed to break through their double-paned aquarium glass with a single strike from the weapon. Smashers use this ability to attack and feast on snails, crabs, mollusks and rock oysters; their blunt clubs enabling them to crack the shells of their prey into pieces. Spearers, on the other hand, prefer the meat of softer animals, like fish, which their barbed claws can more easily slice and snag. A 335,000 US gallon (1. ... Giant African Snail (Achatina fulica) The name snail applies to most members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells. ... Sections Dromiacea Raninoida Heterotremata Thoracotremata The term crab is often applied to several different groups of short (nose to tail) decapods with thick exoskeletons, but only members of the Brachyura are true crabs; other taxa, such as hermit crabs, porcelain crabs, king crabs, and horseshoe crabs are, despite superficial similarities... Classes Caudofoveata Aplacophora Polyplacophora - Chitons Monoplacophora Bivalvia - Bivalves Scaphopoda - Tusk shells Gastropoda - Snails and Slugs Cephalopoda - Squids, Octopuses, etc. ... The name oyster is used for a number of different groups of molluscs which grow for the most part in marine or brackish water. ...

Mantis shrimp appear in a variety of colours, from rather pedestrian browns to stunning neon. Their eyes -- both branching from a single stalk -- are similarly variably colored, and are considered to be the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom. Each eye possesses trinocular vision, and some species have at least eight different visual pigments sensitive to various wavelengths, and three more sensitive to ultraviolet light. By comparison, humans have only three visual pigments. Mantis shrimp also have four filters that tune those visual pigments, they see two or three planes of polarized light, and each eye is capable of depth perception independently of the other eye. In biology, a kingdom or regnum is the top-level, or nearly the top-level, taxon of organisms in scientific classification. ... The wavelength is the distance between repeating units of a wave pattern. ... Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength shorter than that of the visible region, but longer than that of soft X-rays. ... This article treats polarization in electrodynamics. ...

Mantis shrimp are apparently highly intelligent, and exhibit very complex behavior.

In Japanese cuisine the mantis shrimp is eaten as sashimi, and is called "shako". There are many views of what is fundamental to Japanese cuisine. ... Assorted sashimi Sashimi (Japanese: 刺身, lit. ...

In Cantonese cuisine, the mantis shrimp is a popular dish known as "pissing shrimp" due to its tendency to urinate when cooked. Because of this, mantis shrimp are speared to induce them to evacuate their bowels prior to being introduced into the cookpot. After cooking, their flesh is closer to that of lobsters than that of shrimp, and like lobsters their shells are quite hard and require some pressure to crack. Cantonese cuisine (Chinese: 粵菜; pinyin: ) originates from the region around Canton in southern Chinas Guangdong province. ... Subfamilies and Genera Neophoberinae Acanthacaris Thymopinae Nephropsis Nephropides Thymops Thymopsis Nephropinae Homarus Nephrops Homarinus Metanephrops Eunephrops Thymopides Clawed lobsters comprise a family (Nephropidae, sometimes also Homaridae) of large marine crustaceans. ... Superfamilies and families Alpheoidea Alpheidae - snapping shrimps Barbouriidae Hippolytidae Ogyrididae Atyoidea Atyidae Bresilioidea Agostocarididae Alvinocarididae Bresiliidae Disciadidae Mirocarididae Campylonotoidea Bathypalaemonellidae Campylonotoidae Crangonoidea Crangonoidea Glyphocrangonoidea Galatheacaridoidea Galatheacarididae Nematocarcinoidea Eugonatonotidae Nematocarcinidae Rhynchocinetidae Xiphocarididae Oplophoroidea Oplophoridae Palaemonoidea Anchistioididae Desmocarididae Euryrhynchidae Gnathophyllidae Hymenoceridae Kakaducarididae Palaemonidae Typhlocarididae Pandaloidea Pandalidae Thalassocarididae Pasiphaeoidea Pasiphaeidae Physetocaridoidea Physetocarididae Procaridoidea...

External link

• Crustacea.net Stomapoda pages
• The Lurker's Guide to Stomatopods - Mantis Shrimp
• Mantis shrimp - colourful and aggressive