Need an ID

[mickey85]

Sorry, no picture - it's in a pet store.

Best I can tell, it's a Gonodactylid. About 4-5" from eyes to the tip of its telsen. Purple raptorial appendages, and pink pleopods. The body is a mottled greenish, about teh same as the first pic of the G. Falcatus on Dr. Roy's list (http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthro...umalacostraca/royslist/images/g_falcatus1.jpg), but with a different pattern. I want to say it's a Smithii, but I didnt' see the red knob by it's uropods...

Speaking of which, where are the meral spots? Aren't they on the "elbows" of the raptorial appendages? If so, they're purple...leading me to think that it's a N. Oerstedii...

 

[DanInSD]

Meral spots are on the inside of the raptorial appendages, on the "inside of the forearms". They are circular or nearly so, often with a distinctly-colored border. G. smithii has blue spots with white borders. N. Oerstedii has purple spots with white borders.

 

[mickey85]

Kinda what I guessed. This guy doesn't have visible meral spot borders that I could see, but as most of his raptorial appendages are purple, I'm guessing he's an oerstedii, although I'll check again tomorrow...


After my platysoma took a powder (unexpectedly and without warning), I have space!

 

[Thurge]

Just a guess, its the only one I can think of with a solid colored raptoral appendage.
Neogonodactylus curacaoensis

 

[mickey85]

Well, I bought him. This guy has white tips on his raptorial appendages (the part that actually makes contact), with black on the "heel." His pleiopods, periopods and maxillipeds are pink, as are his antennal scales. His uropods are bright pink, almost red (much darker than his other wobbly bits). He's a mottled dark green/brown with 4 segments to his telsen and black intersegmental lines (don't knwo if they're actually colored, or just black...), and 8 segments between his carapace and telsen. Not exactly sure if it's a male or female. It's keeping its raptorial appendages closed, so I can't see any of its meral spot, though from what I can see, the insides of its raptorial appendages are completely white (maybe with a black spot?). Regardless, I don't see a meral spot, so I'm assuming that it's either white or green.


EDIT - BTW, using a ruler as a guide, it's about 4.5" long...from what I can see.

EDIT (again) - he also has black lines running front to back on his carapace

Take this

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=965475

and make everything darker (to forest green and hot pink). Still a Chiraga?

 

[mickey85]

looks a whole lot like this guy's description...

Odontodactylus latirostris

 

[majestic sea life]

the O. Latrio is a great mantis. I had one for 4months and then was shipped off to Dr. Roy.