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Giant/Zebra Mantis - Lysiosquilla scabricauda This Giant/Zebra Mantis - Lysiosquilla scabricauda are usually seen with their head peeking out from a hole from the sea bottom where they waits for their prey to swim past. Anilao,Batangas,Geotagged,Lysiosquillina maculata,Philippines,Zebra mantis shrimp,spring Click/tap to enlarge

Giant/Zebra Mantis - Lysiosquilla scabricauda

This Giant/Zebra Mantis - Lysiosquilla scabricauda are usually seen with their head peeking out from a hole from the sea bottom where they waits for their prey to swim past.

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''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. At a length 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.. more

Similar species: Mantis Shrimps
Species identified by Albert Kang
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By Albert Kang

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Uploaded Jun 12, 2017. Captured Apr 6, 2013 15:33 in Mabini Circumferential Rd, Mabini, Batangas, Philippines.
  • DSC-RX100
  • f/7.1
  • 1/100s
  • ISO160
  • 37.1mm