Mantis ID please

[venwu225]

Hi All:

Me and a friend has a mantis shrimp in a ten gallon tank, the system as regular fluorescent lighting and a 45 gallon capacity external filter. The animal lives in its rock of choice (came with the shrimp). I would like to find out what species it is. Lurker's doesn't seem to have a similar species on the photo gallery.
Hopefully Dr. Caldwell could offer some insights.

Thanks.

MZ

 

[aquababy]

Sorry, I cannot tell from your picture - it looks too dark.

 

[Gonodactylus]

It is definitely a gonodactyloid, but that is about all I can tell from the image. Do you know where it came from? If it is from the Caribbean or Florida, it has to be in the genus Neogonodactylus, but if it is from the Central or Indo-Pacific, it could be any of a dozen species.

Roy