Help me not feel like an idiot

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Fretfreak13

I am not a boy!
I work at my LFS and am a nutty mantis enthusiast. Pretty much everyone thinks I'm nuts when I rifle through all our LR shipments (without gloves..lol) looking for these little guys. Anyways, my boss ordered a peacock for one of our customers and we were actually given a male O. japonicus! I've never seen one in person, so I was running around like a kid on Christmas morning.

Anyways, when I'm trying to tell people how amazing they are rather than how "evil", I always feel dumb when I can't pronounce some of the latin names.

Dr. Roy, if you could chime in here I'd greatly appreciate it! How do I pronounce:

Odontodactylus scyllarus
Gonodactylus (gon-oh-dack-tye-lus?)
Gonodactylaceus
Lysiosquillina

Those are the ones I stumble over the most. Any help is greatly appreciated!
 
Huh, if you guys are really interested in him perhaps I can get him from work and ship him to someone. There aren't really many mantis keepers around here, and actually we were ordering a peacock and it wound up to be this fella. I'm actually moving to school for the first time this weekend and don't work again until next weekend, so I can take pictures and post them then. Sorry for the long wait.

What gives him away are the BRIGHT, pure white eyes and the half and half (pink/white) little feather-looking parts near his face. I forgot what that body part is called, sorry! His legs are all red, body is a cream/tan, and telson has red and yellow on it.

Just a tad nervous because I've never shipped an animal before, but I'd rather see him go to someone who has kept mantids before, especially if he's such a rare species!
 
they are nice IMO since they have that big stomatopod feel (definitely 30+gallons), but yet still active, and im pretty sure, or at least haven't heard anything about shell rot with this species?
 
I have seen a few more O. japonicus than that for sail. A few years ago a half dozen showed up from Sri Lanka and more recently a few from NSW. They tend to occur deep (> 40 m) and as such don't do well with bright aquarium lighting. Large animals can develop shell rot.

I've been trying to get a few more O.japonicus to complete a study on the development of sexual dimorphic fluorescence, but none of my contacts have been able to come up with any in the past two years. If anyone runs into some and would like to trade for more suitable reef species, I would be more than happy to work out a deal.

Roy
 
Here he is! Still hanging out at the store. I did ID him correctly, right? Sorry about the picture quality, I don't have the best camera. Also, sorry if some of the pics are sideways..I can't figure out how to fix them lol

Anyways, since he dosen't techinically belong to me I'll have to refer you guys to my boss. PM me and I'll give you his email if you're interested in him.

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I'm like...99.999999% sure he's a male. When he came in I checked his underside and I do believe I saw the boy-parts. As well, on Roy's site he has both a picture of a male and a female. The females body is green. The males is tan, and this one is defiantly not green in person.
 
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