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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Mantis shrimp"”.
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Ventilation Behavior of the Mantis Shrimp, HEMISQUILLA ENSIGERA CALIFORNIENSIS IN HYPOXIC BURROWS
<p>The burrow-dwelling mantis shrimp, <em>Hemisquilla ensigera californiensis</em>, is an environmentally challenged marine species due to the fact it inhabits burrows located beneath the surface of the sediment where oxygen pressure is low and easily depleted. This experiment revealed that burrow …
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The Aerobic Metabolism and Behavior of the Burrow-dwelling Mantis Shrimp, HEMISQUILLA ENSIGERA CALIFORNIENSIS
… three-fourths of the daily cycle. Finally, this mantis shrimp was not observed trying to actively pump oxygenated water into the burrow and often remained at the far end of the burrow with little regard for the better-oxygenated water near the entrance. This is in contrast to other known …
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The Development of Spring-Actuated Mechanisms in Mantis Shrimp (Stomatopoda) and Snapping Shrimp (Alpheidae)
… of LaMSA morphology in two systems, the mantis shrimp Gonodactylaceus falcatus (Stomatopoda) and the snapping shrimp Alpheus heterochaelis (Alpheidae). I also examine the plasticity of LaMSA development in the snapping shrimp Alpheus heterochaelis. The mantis shrimp’s spring-actuated …
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Personality in Stomatopod Crustaceans
<p>Stomatopods, or mantis shrimp, are small, predatory crustaceans of tropical and subtropical waters. Mantis shrimp research has focused largely on their agonistic interactions and complex visual systems. Despite their broad behavioral repertoire, stomatopods have not yet been investigated for …
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A Connection Between Life and Art Through Light and Material
… cones that any creature on earth has. The mantis shrimp has sixteen color receptive cones as compared to the three that humans have. It is impossible to fathom what visual experiences would be possible with more than five times the amount of cones that we have now. In this piece I've tried …
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Snoek Thyrsites atun in South African waters : aspects of its biology, distribution and fishery
… handline off the Cape Peninsula were anchovy and mantis shrimp. Snoek caught in midwater trawls offshore were feeding primarily on anchovy, with pilchard, euphausiids and amphipods also important. Snoek trawled demersally had a more diverse diet, dominated by redeye roundberring, lightfish, …
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Fracture analysis in biomimetic Bouligand architectures
… with the Bouligand structures is the smashing Mantis Shrimp, <em>Odontodactylus Scyllarus, </em>(or stomatopod) due to its capability of generating high speed, high acceleration blows using its raptorial appendage to defeat highly armored preys. The load-bearing part of this appendage, the …
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Review of the South African and Mozambican stomatopod fauna
Mantis shrimps or stomatopods (Crustacea: Stomatopoda) form an important component of the marine benthos and are notorious predators. Globally some 480 species have been described. However, the current taxonomic knowledge on the mantis shrimp fauna of southern Africa remains limited and outdated, …
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Biomechanics of Hierarchical Elastic Systems
… scans, I quantify the morphology of the mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda) merus, a single structure of the raptorial appendage hypothesized to store the elastic energy that drives ultrafast strikes. Comparing the morphology among the species, I find that the merus in smashers, species that …