Atlantis Mantis

Crawling68 · #1 07/27/2006, 09:31 PM

Atlantis aquarium currently has a cool 1 1/2 mantis. If you go to Atlantisaquarium.net, go to cleaners, there it is. Im assuming by it rather round body that it is some sort of Odonodactylus species.

Frostyeel · #2 07/27/2006, 10:13 PM

That mantis looks awesome, I really love his coloration with the combination of green and white. I would think about buying him but I am giving my tank more time to mature and stabilize before I get a mantis. Here is a link for those too lazy to reach the page themselves: http://atlantisaquarium.net/inverts.html

Msby12 · #3 07/27/2006, 10:52 PM

whoa, is that a p. cilata? for $60!!!! jeez!

Thurge · #4 07/28/2006, 12:29 AM

Haptosquilla glyptocercus
Pretty but not $60 + shipping +$7 box fee.

uchiha · #5 07/28/2006, 01:00 AM

looks like a Haptosquilla stoliura and not a H. glyptocercus

but i'm no expert, just going by what pics show here:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthrop...ame=h_stoliura

that is a pretty nice mantis though, maybe worth it for someone who's local to NorCal

Gonodactylus · #6 07/28/2006, 01:31 AM

The green and white species is Haptosquilla stoliurus, a common reef flat species in Indonesia. They are a robust species, but extremely shy. In the aquarium, you will rarely see them. They stay in their cavity most of the time.

Roy

Msby12 · #7 07/28/2006, 02:37 AM

i wuz talkin about the one they called a banana mantis shrimp, is that a p. cilata? i'm just curious

Crawling68 · #8 07/28/2006, 08:09 AM

Yes, that is a P. Ciliata.

thor32766 · #9 07/28/2006, 01:47 PM

for sure its a p. ciliata

DensityMan · #10 07/28/2006, 02:24 PM

The pictured mantis top-left here does look like -
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthrop...ame=h_stoliura
(and it appears Dr. Roy's already confirmed that)

Thurge · #11 07/29/2006, 12:56 AM

I suck at this game.

cat_named_noodl · #12 07/30/2006, 11:45 AM

wow those guys are cool