Mantis shrimp
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Mantis shrimp are carnivorous marine crustaceans of the order Stomatopoda. Stomatopods branched off from other members of the class Malacostraca around 400 million years ago, with more than 520 extant
Odontodactylus Scyllarus 2
Lysiosquillina maculata Prague 2012 1
Drawing of a mantis shrimp by Richard Lydekker. The folded raptorial claws are flanking the carapace.
Close-up of a peacock mantis shrimp showing the structure of the eyes. The three dark spots are pseudopupils, indicating the ommatidia that are pointing towards the camera's POV
Malacostraca
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Malacostraca is the second largest of the six classes of pancrustaceans after insects, containing about 40,000 living species, divided among 16 orders. Its members, the malacostracans, display a great
Mantis shrimp
…of the order Stomatopoda (from Ancient Greek στόμα (stóma) 'mouth' and πούς (poús) 'foot'). Stomatopods branched off from other members of the class Malacostraca around 400 million years ago, with more than 520 extant species of mantis shrimp known. All living species are in the suborder Unipeltata, which arose…
Leptostraca such as Nebalia bipes retain the primitive condition of having seven abdominal segments.
Grapsus grapsus, a terrestrial crab
Squilla empusa, a mantis shrimp
Odontodactylus scyllarus (Hoplocarida: Stomatopoda)