Peacock mantis shrimp
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A peacock mantis shrimp’s strike also creates a shock when a bubble bursts.
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A peacock mantis shrimp’s strike also creates a shock when a bubble bursts.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Peacock mantis shrimp
- Scientific name
- Odontodactylus scyllarus
- Japanese name
- モンハナシャコ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Stomatopoda
- Family
- Odontodactylidae
- Genus
- Odontodactylus
It strikes with hammer-shaped limbs to smash the hard shells of snails, clams and other prey.
How the Peacock mantis shrimp lives
It is active both by day and by night. It usually lives alone outside the mating period. It often rests in a curved burrow it makes at the base of coral.
University of Michigan Animal Diversity WebBasic data
- Diet
- Sea snails, bivalves, crustaceans, and other prey
- Range
- From south of Sagami Bay to Australia
Where the Peacock mantis shrimp has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- モンハナシャコ
- 简体中文
- 蝉形齿指虾蛄
- 繁體中文
- 蟬形齒指蝦蛄
- Español
- Camarón mantis arlequín
- Français
- Squille multicolore
- Deutsch
- Clown-Fangschreckenkrebs
- Português (Brasil)
- Lagosta-boxeadora
- Italiano
- Canocchia pavone
- العربية
- جمبري مانتيس
- Русский
- Рак-богомол роскошный
- বাংলা
- ময়ূরী চিংড়িবাহার
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — モンハナシャコChecked: 2026-11-04
- University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web — Odontodactylus scyllarusChecked: 2026-11-05
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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