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Mantis Shrimp
Phan Hay
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Washington, DC, United States
An illustration of an Gonodactylaceus ternatensis, a species of mantis shrimp found in central pacific waters. The males and females are distinguised by their different colored antennae and uropods (blue and orange/yellow, respectively). It creates and lives from within cavities in branching corals. It can grow up to 12 cm in length.
Subject: Female and male. Artist: Phan Hay Medium: Watercolor Published: Manning, R.B. 1995 Stomatopod Crustacea of Vietnam: The legacy of Raoul Serène. Crustacean Research, Carcinological Society of Japan, Special Number 4:1-339, figs.1-142, pls.1-38. Plates 1 and 2.
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- Title: Mantis Shrimp
- Creator: Phan Hay
- Type: Illustration
- Rights: This image was obtained from the Smithsonian Institution. The image or its contents may be protected by international copyright laws. http://www.si.edu/termsofuse
- External Link: View this object record in the Smithsonian Institution Collections Search Center
- Medium: Watercolor
- USNM Catalog Number(s): 1200985
- Scientific Name: <i>Gonodactylaceus ternatensis</i> (De Man, 1902)
- Photo Credit: Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
- Field: Invertebrate Zoology
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