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by **liquid** » January 10th, 2005, 8:33 pm

In this month's Advanced Aquarist's Online Magazine, we have a mystery animal seeking identification. Can you guess what it is?

Please refer to this article in this month's Advanced Aquarist: http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/ ... ptune.html Good luck!!!

by **BenZo** » January 15th, 2005, 5:03 am

I think it is mantis Lysiosquilloides mapia

by **coralite** » January 15th, 2005, 7:30 pm

mantis shrimp

by **starfish 1** » January 15th, 2005, 9:20 pm

May be some type of Crab or even a type of weed.

by **AF Founder** » January 16th, 2005, 10:38 am

BenZo wrote:I think it is mantis Lysiosquilloides mapia

Congrats., you got it. A rare mantis at that.

by **Ninong** » January 17th, 2005, 12:58 pm

How big is that sucker? I take it we're looking at just its head, right?

by **Reef Box Etc** » January 17th, 2005, 1:08 pm

I think it is a cyanobacteria colony... oh wait... :oops:

by **HClH2OFish** » January 17th, 2005, 4:43 pm

Okay..just saw the pic and forced myself not to scroll...this one is easy..it's a mantis staring out at ya and bein all coy and stuff.
Go ahead...pet it

by **Mihai** » January 17th, 2005, 6:01 pm

Aha, so the "mystery fish" is actually a mantis and not a blob of orange jelly as I initially thought :-)

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Actually I was split between jelly and algae :-)

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I had no clue (still have lots of questions) what I was looking at - can you post a legend with numbers with the picture (e.g., 1 eye, 2 mouth, 3 leggs, etc)?

Thanks,
Mihai

by **HClH2OFish** » January 17th, 2005, 7:15 pm

The 2 structures in the upper right are his eyes. The raptorial appendages (this one is a slasher) are folded in front running from upper right to lower left.

Here's a great site with some wonderful pics....

http://www.blueboard.com/mantis/

Enjoy

Oh, and here is another pic of this new found species --
http://www.blueboard.com/mantis/pics/underwatercolors_lysiosquillid.htm

by **Mihai** » January 18th, 2005, 12:49 am

OK, it makes a bit more sense now :-)

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M.

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