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Green marble mantis shrimp
Gonodactylus platysoma
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 408928, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Green marble mantis shrimp
- Scientific
- Gonodactylus platysoma
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Mantis shrimps
- Maximum size
- Up to about 11 cm (total length)
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 0 to 10 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
A smashing mantis shrimp, often green and marbled, that lives in holes in dead coral and rubble and breaks open shelled prey with its claws.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=2); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=9, 5 observers).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Gonodactylus-platysoma.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=408928
- inaturalist.org /taxa/340818
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Gonodactylus_platysoma_35816933.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.