Question

Is a Mantis Shrimp really a shrimp? Why or why not? pleas answer with details

Answer 1

Yes, Mantis Shrimp is really a shrimp. Following is the explanation for the same:

• The term shrimp is used to refer to few of decapod crustaceans. The decapods (which means “ten-footed") are an order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, which includes other groups, such as lobsters, prawns, crayfish, crabs, and shrimp.

• The term shrimp is used broadly, it may cover any of the groups whose locomotion is primarily via swimming mode and have elongated bodies.
  • Broadly defined, shrimp has the following feature:
  • Stalk-eyed swimming crustaceans with long narrow muscular abdomens (tails)
  • Slender legs and long antennae (whiskers)
  • Swim forward with by paddling with swimmerets on the underside of their abdomens.
  • Have thin fragile legs which are utilized primarily for perching.

• Mantis Shrimp also known stomatopods are marine crustaceans, and are grouped under order Stomatopoda. Mantis shrimp is placed under the class Malacostraca which are non-decapod crustaceans.

• Mantis Shrimp displays all the above discusses characteristic features of s shrimp and therefore, it is really a shrimp.