Safe Sexing of my Stomatopod

[Gonodactylus]

Nope, it is not the color of the legs.

Roy

 

[mattyice]

come on just tell us lol

 

[Gonodactylus]

I've been waiting for two years for someone to figure this out, I can wait a bit longer - at least until we publish it.

Roy

 

[Msby12]

nah, don't tell us yet

maybe i can organize my biology class to analyze pictures of males and females!

 

[Gonodactylus]

I was losing faith in your powers of observation, but at least one person is getting very warm and may figure it out.

Roy

 

[turnabod]

it's the number of legs.

 

[esco]

ahh, no hints? who's on the right track?

 

[Gonodactylus]

It was a private email. That hawk-eyed individual got the necessary clues off images on this site.

Roy

 

[Ms. K]

only sexually mature males (> 12 cm) have linearly polarized red/clear uropod spines. In females and juvenile males, the spines are non-polarized and red. I cheated...got the info off your PowerPoint presentation...but in my own defense, the spines are actually what I was referring to when I suggested the "scales" on the uropods of the males. I just didn't know what they were called.

Am I correct?