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The Mantis Shrimp (or ‘Stomatopod’) is a small, aggressive marine
Crustacean, that inhabit tropical and subtropical waters of the Indian and
Pacific Oceans between Eastern Africa and Hawaii.
They are beautiful and vibrant in colour, but also deadly, able to club
prey with the force of a bullet, or spike them with their sharp claws.
They are members of the order Stomatopoda and taxonomy group Crustacea,
which are hard-shelled animals, such as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp,
krill and more.