Oratosquilla oratoria | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Stomatopoda |
Family: | Squillidae |
Genus: | Oratosquilla |
Species: | O. oratoria
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Binomial name | |
Oratosquilla oratoria (De Haan, 1844)
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Oratosquilla oratoria, the Japanese mantis shrimp, is a species of mantis shrimp found in the western Pacific.[2] It is widely harvested in Japan and eaten as sushi. Like other members of its order it has a powerful spear, which it uses to hunt invertebrates and small fish. It grows to a length of 185 millimetres (7.3 in), and lives at depths of 10–100 metres (33–328 ft).[2]