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Camarón mantis (Odontodactylus scyllarus), Anilao, Filipinas, 2023-08-24, DD 164
2023-08-24
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- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
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- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
This species ranges in size from 3–18 centimetres (1.2–7.1 in) and is a burrower, constructing U-shaped holes in the loose substrate near the bases of coral reefs in water ranging from 3–40 metres (9.8–131.2 ft). It's a smasher, with club-shaped raptorial appendages. An agile and active intertidal and sub-intertidal predator, it prefers gastropods, crustaceans, and bivalves, and will repeatedly deliver blunt force to the exoskeleton of its prey until it can gain access to the underlying soft tissue for consumption. It is reported to have a "punch" of over 80 km/h (50 miles/h), the fastest recorded punch of any living animal. The acceleration is similar to that in a .22 LR bullet fired from a handgun.
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