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Tiger mantis shrimp
Lysiosquilla maculata
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 211183, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Tiger mantis shrimp
- Scientific
- Lysiosquilla maculata
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Mantis shrimps
- Maximum size
- Up to about 38.5 cm (total length)
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated, recorded from 6 to 145 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
The tiger mantis shrimp is a very large spearing mantis shrimp, up to about 40 cm, banded in brown and yellow. It lives in a deep burrow in sand and ambushes prey from the entrance.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=1); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=6, 4 observers).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Lysiosquilla-maculata.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=211183
- inaturalist.org /taxa/199601
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Lysiosquilla_maculata.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.