Lisa's Mantis Shrimp

Q: Where can you find Lisa's Mantis Shrimp?

Lisa's Mantis Shrimp can be found in: Bali, Laccadive Islands, Mauritius, Malaysia East, Taiwan, Sulawesi Island, Malaysia West, Brunei, China, Myanmar, Wakatobi, Hong Kong, India, India East, India West, Thailand East, Thailand West, Indo-Pacific Central, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indo-Pacific, Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Chagos Islands, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Mascarene Islands, Thailand.

Lysiosquillina lisa

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Lysiosquillina lisa is a species of mantis shrimp from the Indo-West Pacific.

Description

This is a large spearer. Coloration: light orange to dark reddish brown, antennal scales are large with light mottling. Eyes are oval and bilobed with white spots. The rostral plate of Lysiosquillina lisa, being widest at the base and with distinct sulci on either side of the median carina, closely resembles that of Lysiosquilla sulcirostris. The former species is readily separated from the latter by the blunt mesiodorsal lobe on the antennal protopod (versus a distinct spine), presence of nine or ten (versus seven or eight) teeth on the dactylus of the raptorial claw and colour-in-life (red-brown transverse bands in L. lisa; black-brown bands in L. sulcirostris).

Distribution

Indo-West Pacific: from Mauritius to the Andaman Sea, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Habitat

It is found in a very large hole in volcanic rubble and sandy areas at the base of coral reefs. It hunts from burrow opening in sand. It feeds on fish, shrimps and squid.