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Stomatopoda - mantis shrimps

animal order - the order of animals

class Crustacea, Crustacea - class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas

stomatopod, stomatopod crustacean - a kind of crustacean

mantis crab, mantis shrimp - tropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping appendages

family Squillidae, Squillidae - crustaceans that burrow in mud or under stones in shallow water along the seashore

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Reproductive biology of the Japanese mantis shrimp Oratosquilla oratoria (Crustacea Stomatopoda): annual cycle of gonadal development and copulation.

Oogenesis of Lithodes santolla: histological and histochemical characterization

Crustaceans (Decapoda and Stomatopoda) from the R.V.

Crustaceos (Decapoda y Stomatopoda) del R.V. Skimmer y R.V. Victor Hensen en el Golfo de Nicoya, Pacifico, Costa Rica

Contests with deadly weapons: telson sparring in mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda).

Meral-Spot Reflectance Signals Weapon Performance in the Mantis Shrimp Neogonodactylus oerstedii (Stomatopoda)

The ability to roll the body into a ball is a common defensive strategy in several taxa and has been reported in arthropods, such as pill millipedes (terrestrial species of the Sphaerotheriida and Glomerida), marine pill bugs (Isopoda), and the larval stages of mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda; Haug & Haug 2014).

DEFENSIVE BALL FORMATION IN OCEANIC SQUID PARALARVAE

Report on a collection of crustacean, decapoda and stomatopoda from Turkey and the Balkans.

Length-Weight Relationships and Condition Factors of Five Crab Species (Decapoda) in the Black Sea

Report on a collection of Crustacea Decapoda and Stomatopoda from Turkey and the Balkans, Zoologische Verhandelingen 1961; 47: 1-67.

Decapod Crustaceans in the Marmara Island (Marmara Sea) and Ecological Characteristics of Their Habitats

Lista de Crustaceos del Peru (Decapoda y Stomatopoda) con datos de distribucion geografica.

Ampliacion de la distribucion sur de Ucides occidentalis (Decapoda: Ucididae) y Cardisoma crassum (Decapoda: Gecarcinidae)

& CANTERA-KINTZ, J.R., 2007.--Crustaceos (Crustacea: Sessilia, Stomatopoda, Isopoda, Amphipoda, Decapoda) de Bahia Malaga, Valle del Cauca (Pacifico colombiano).

Presencia de armases angustum (Smith, 1870) (decapoda, sesarmidae) en estan ques de Guzmania sp. (Bromeliaceae) en el bosque humedo tro pical del choco (Colombia)

Population demography and spatial distribution of the mantis shrimp Squilla biformis (Stomatopoda, Squillidae) from Pacific Costa Rica.

Elasmobranch bycatch associated with the shrimp trawl fishery off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, Central America

De los contenidos estomacales del jurel, fueron identificados hasta 23 diferentes grupos de presas, entre especies y taxas, pertenecientes a 10 mayores taxas: Teleostei, Euphausiacea, Decapoda, Stomatopoda, Isopoda, Amphipoda, Copepoda, Ostracoda, Cephalopoda y Gasteropoda.

Habitos alimenticios del Jurel Trachurus murphyi (Nichols) en la zona nor-central del mar peruano

Adaptive color vision in Pullosquilla litoralis (Stomatopoda, Lysiosquilloidea) associated with spectral and intensity changes in light environment.

Chemical orientation strategies of the crayfish are influenced by the hydrodynamics of their native environment