


The mantis shrimp is notorious for their striking force, and have the nickname ‘ thumb splitter‘, due to the painful gashes they can cause if handled without care by humans. Vibrant multi-coloured – Green, blue, red, orange 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.

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. 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.
