Gonodactylus
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I have tried for years to take a high resolution photo of the moment of contact when a Lysiosquillina catches a fish. There is only a few millesecond window to catch the action. This comes pretty close. The stomatopod is a 16 cm juvenile female L. maculata. I caught her as a last stage larva nearly three years ago at Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef. She was established in a deep sand bed satellite tank where she excavated a burrow. I feed her two damsels a week and almost every fish capture has been photographed.
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