Scientific Illustration

rhamphotheca:

blackkittenclan: illustration of Lysiosquilla maculata, by Alcide d’Orbigny

* The Striped Mantis Shrimp, is found across the Indo-Pacific region from East Africa to the Galápagos and Hawaiian Islands.At a length of up to 40 cm, L. maculata is the largest mantis shrimp in the world.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.There is a small artisanal fishery for this species.

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