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Echinosquilla guerinii is a species of mantis shrimp that is widely distributed in the Pacific Ocean.
Echinosquilla guerinii is unique in that its telson is modified to mimic a sea urchin. This adaptation likely helps the mantis shrimp hunt, as it can ambush and consume unsuspecting animals that want to prey on what looks like a sea urchin. Interestingly.
Echinosquilla guerinii is one of the few stomatopods that appears to regularly feed on other stomatopods.
the mantis shrimp is crepuscular and retreats during the day into a burrow, which is usually a worm tube or rock cave.
Synonym: Gonodactylus guerinii White, 1861
Echinosquilla guerinii is unique in that its telson is modified to mimic a sea urchin. This adaptation likely helps the mantis shrimp hunt, as it can ambush and consume unsuspecting animals that want to prey on what looks like a sea urchin. Interestingly.
Echinosquilla guerinii is one of the few stomatopods that appears to regularly feed on other stomatopods.
the mantis shrimp is crepuscular and retreats during the day into a burrow, which is usually a worm tube or rock cave.
Synonym: Gonodactylus guerinii White, 1861
