The speed of a mantis shrimp to catch a bullet.

How are these eyes compared to those of the Mantis Shrimp?

One of the most surprising is a funny creature called a mantis shrimp.

The hyper fast animal in question - the mantis shrimp.

The mantis shrimp surveys its world through a unique type of compound eye.

This is a configuration that makes it possible for mantis shrimp to see objects with three different parts of the same eye.

In the monogamous species, the mantis shrimp remain with the same partner for up to 20 years.

These aquarists may play a role in understanding the mysteries of the mantis shrimp.

You can keep a mantis shrimp in a tank, as part of a miniature marine ecology.

Years ago, Jack used to have a mantis shrimp called Dougal.

The larvae of many groups of mantis shrimp are poorly known.

Seafood-wise it serves everything from steamed fish to fried mantis shrimp.

Its abundance has led to it being the only commercially fished mantis shrimp in the Mediterranean.

Pseudosquillopsis is a genus of mantis shrimp in the family Parasquillidae.

The mantis shrimp has such good eyes it can perceive both polarized light and multispectral images.

One group of unwelcome animals are the Mantis Shrimps.

Detailed vision was an evolutionary trump card for mantis shrimps and trilobites.

The mantis shrimp then performs a forward flip in an attempt to roll towards the next tide pool.

It is not uncommon for a piece of live rock to convey a live mantis shrimp into an aquarium.

Two species of Mantis Shrimp have been reported to be able to detect circular polarized light.

Tetrasquillidae is a family of mantis shrimp containing ten genera:

At night carnivores are out to hunt on the reef including the mantis shrimp who kills a crab in the movie.

While some aquarists value mantis shrimp, others consider them harmful pests, because they:

Gonodactylus is a genus of mantis shrimp, containing the following species:

Once it has analysed and identified potential prey, the mantis shrimp then attacks, using its club-like fore-limbs.

The creature is not a true shrimp but a crustacean known as a stomatopod.

Yet even the biggest, meanest stomatopod has his moments of weakness.

S. mantis is the only native stomatopod to be fished for on a commercial scale in the Mediterranean.

Researchers estimate that the stomatopod acts as a true wheel around 40% of the time during this series of rolls.

It is the only known pantropical stomatopod.

A freshly-molted stomatopod has a soft, tender exoskeleton.

This view has been reinforced with a recent Nature Photonics paper that takes a look at the optical performance of a Stomatopod crustacean's eye.

When stranded by a low tide the 3 cm stomatopod lies on its back and performs backwards somersaults over and over.

A single fossil stomatopod larva has been discovered, in the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen lithographic limestone.

R. desmaresti is one of only two species of stomatopod found around the British Isles, and one of twelve species in the Mediterranean.

Kleinlogel S., Marshall N.J., Horwood J.M., Land M.F. (2003) Neuroarchitecture of the color and polarization vision system of the stomatopod Haptosquilla.

The shrimp were good news, too, for Keith Harvey, a member of a dredging crew that dug up the five specimens of the stomatopod, Lysiosquillina maculata, while working to clear the canal of two decades' worth of silt and trash.

They are not actually shrimps, but members of the order Stomatopoda.

Mantis shrimp or stomatopods are marine crustaceans, the members of the order Stomatopoda.

He was "one of the most influential carcinologists of the 20th century", and named 200 taxa in the Decapoda and Stomatopoda, most of them shrimp.

As well as many species and countless genera, the names of many higher taxa are also attributable to Latreille, including Thysanura, Siphonaptera, Pycnogonida, Ostracoda, Stomatopoda, Decapoda, Amphipoda, Isopoda, Xiphosura and Myriapoda.

Ornithologists speculate that the wings were used as weapons, in the manner of a club or flail, similar to the adaptations found in some mantis shrimps (Stomatopoda: Gonodactyloidea) that possess a club-like distally inflated dactyl used to strike prey and other shrimps.