mantis shrimp in English

noun
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a predatory marine crustacean with a pair of large spined front legs that resemble those of a mantis and are used for capturing prey.
Like many marine crustaceans, mantis shrimp rely on their sense of smell to find food, mates, and habitat.
noun
    mantis crab

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1. And mantis shrimp are called "mantis shrimp" after the praying mantises, which also have a fast feeding appendage.

2. So, mantis shrimp come in two varieties: there are spearers and smashers.

3. This is a recording I made of a mantis shrimp that's found off the coast of California.

4. 25 In Japanese cuisine, the mantis shrimp is eaten boiled as sashimi and as a sushi topping, and is called shako .

5. 17 The mantis shrimp also has the best eyesight in the animal world with 16 different photoreceptor types (compared to four in humans).

6. So the next and final question was, well, how much force does a mantis shrimp produce if they're able to break open snails?

7. The Antennules serve as chemosensory organs and aid the mantis shrimp in finding food, finding a mate, finding an appropriate habitat, and sensing predators

8. Crustaceans (make up a very large group of the Arthropods which include the crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, barnacles brine shrimp, copepods, ostracods and mantis shrimp

9. A land-living Crustacean : Crustaceans (make up a very large group of the Arthropods which include the crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, barnacles brine shrimp, copepods, ostracods and mantis shrimp

10. So, this -- what I saw, on every single mantis shrimp limb, whether it's a spearer or a smasher, is a beautiful saddle-shaped structure right on the top surface of the limb.

11. Woodlouse or slater a land-living Crustacean : Crustaceans (make up a very large group of the Arthropods which include the crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, barnacles brine shrimp, copepods, ostracods and mantis shrimp.

12. The Bug-Eyed Crawmad (デメジャコ?, lit.: "Bug-Eyed Mantis Shrimp", Bugeyed Crawmad in the European version) is a miniboss that appears in Pikmin 3, twice in story mode and both times in the Garden of Hope.Its appearance is similar to the Hermit Crawmad, but it possesses distinctly large eyes protruding out of its head through eye-stalks.Instead of appearing from only one hole in the