Help with mantis ID

[Gamera]

I'm having a small mantis shipped to me, and I'm trying to find information on IDing the specimen.

For now, all I know is that it came from a live rock farm off Tampa Bay. It's a dark brown color, but it's still quite small, slightly over an inch long.

Anyone have any URLs or any information they can point me at?

[ISFRAEL]

hey gamera and welcome

http://www.blueboard.com/mantis/

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/aquarius/

and moviegeek has a good site so look at one of his posts and click on his url!

c-ya

[Gonodactylus]

The most common stomatopod coming out of live rock from Tampa Bay is Neogonodactlus wennerae. It lives in cavities in live rock, occurs at depths from 10 to 130 feet and reaches a maximum size of around 6 cm (probably five or six years old). They feed mostly on small crabs, snails and hermit crabls, but will take very small fish, shrimp, etc. if they can catch them. The most common color for this species collected below 30 feet is reddish brown, but I have also collected animals that were emeral green, tan mottled, sandy cream, etc. These are very hardy animals and while they can't reproduce in an aquarium (due to a long larval stage), they will live in your tank for years.

Roy

[Gamera]

Thanks for the help!

I've scrounged around the images online, and I think I'll be more than equipped to ID the specimen.

Thanks again for the replies!