Gonodactylus platysoma by Dr. R Caldwell. According to Caldwell and Dingle (Naturwissenschaften 62,214-222) this species lives in spaces beneath coral "wheels" or "mushrooms" (mostly Porites spp), and is one of the least aggressive in terms of its agonistic interactions with other mantis shrimps. |
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