Hypertek99
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Where can i get one??? They are the yellow ones right?
Where can i get a Rainbow Mantis???
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Gonodactylus
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Rainbow is a new one to me. Odontodactylus scyllarus in the trade is usually called the Peacock or Clown mantis, although several years back it was also called the Harlequin mantis.
Almost no specific species of mantis shrimp that I know of have common names except for O. scyllarus. Wholesalers will sometimes make up a name to make the animal more attractive on the inventory and a couple of authors of marine invertebrate guides have made up their own common names - often taken partly from the scientific name. For example, the "false mantis shrimp" from Pseudosquilla.
Anyway, a "rainbow mantis" most likely is a species like O. scyllarus.
Roy
Almost no specific species of mantis shrimp that I know of have common names except for O. scyllarus. Wholesalers will sometimes make up a name to make the animal more attractive on the inventory and a couple of authors of marine invertebrate guides have made up their own common names - often taken partly from the scientific name. For example, the "false mantis shrimp" from Pseudosquilla.
Anyway, a "rainbow mantis" most likely is a species like O. scyllarus.
Roy
Hypertek99
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I looked it up everyone calls it Rainbow Mantis. It's got a yellow shell.
Gonodactylus
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Is it this species - Pseudosquilla ciliata - yellow morph?
Hypertek99
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Yes those are it. Where did you get them???? Do they get big???
