... mantis shrimp use a LaMSA mechanism in their raptorial appendages to produce extremely fast strikes. Until now, however, it was unclear whether mantis shrimp at earlier life-history stages also strike using elastic recoil and latch mediation. We tested whether larval mantis shrimp ( Gonodactylaceus...

...Ilse M. Daly; Martin J. How; Julian C. Partridge; Nicholas W. Roberts ABSTRACT Stomatopods have an extraordinary visual system, incorporating independent movement of their eyes in all three degrees of rotational freedom. In this work, we demonstrate that in the peacock mantis shrimp, Odontodactylus...

... 3 2015 27 4 2015 © 2015. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2015 Summary: A broad survey of mantis shrimp reveals variability in ocular UV-filters, suggesting a complex evolutionary history for these pigments, and even greater visual complexity than previously appreciated...

... Stomatopod Mantis shrimp Polarization vision Signal evolution Sensory bias Multi-modal signal Polarization sensitivity is a common visual specialization that has evolved in both terrestrial and aquatic animals, and is particularly prevalent in invertebrates ( Wehner and Labhart, 2006 ). On land...

... Mantis shrimp Discrimination threshold The polarisation of light provides an independent channel of visual information that some animals use to discriminate objects or for communication ( Shashar et al., 1998 ; Wehner and Labhart, 2006 ; Glantz, 2007 ; Chiou et al., 2011 ; How et al., 2012...

... on the material properties of biological structures under static loading. Here, we examine the mechanical impact properties of the mantis shrimp's telson, a piece of abdominal armor that withstands repeated, intense impacts from the potent hammer-like appendages used by conspecifics during ritualized fighting. We...

... of the plasticity in lysiosquilloid stomatopod color vision appears to be light intensity rather than spectral distribution. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: cheroske@umbc.edu ) 17 10 2002 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2003 2003 mantis shrimp Pullosquilla litoralis visual...

... by waves. We compared signal encounters by odor-plume-tracking stomatopods (mantis shrimp) in wave-affected and unidirectional flow in a flume. Stomatopods are small enough that we can study their natural behavior in a flume. They sample odors by flicking their antennules. A thin sheet of laser light...

... 2000 stomatopod mantis shrimp Gonodactylaceus mutatus aesthetasc antennule flicking chemosensory biomechanics velocity gradient particle image velocimetry olfaction Many marine crustaceans rely heavily on olfaction to find food, mates and a suitable habitat and to avoid...