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Oratosquilla oratoria (Mantis shrimp)

Synonyms: Squilla affinis; Squilla oratoria

Wikipedia Abstract

Oratosquilla oratoria is a species of mantis shrimp found in the Western Pacific. It is widely harvested in Japan where it is known as shako (シャコ, 蝦蛄) 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). \n* For sale at a Japanese market \n* Close-up of the telson and uropods
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Predators

Cynoglossus joyneri (Red tongue sole)[1]
Cynoglossus semilaevis (Tongue sole)[2]
Muraenesox cinereus (Dagger-tooth pike-conger)[3]
Paralichthys olivaceus (Olive flounder)[4]
Trichiurus lepturus (Atlantic Cutlassfish)[5]

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Citations

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♦ 1Feeding ecology of three tonguefishes, genus Cynoglossus (Cynoglossidae) in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan, Gun Wook Baeck, Joo Myun Park and Hiroaki Hashimoto, Animal Cells and Systems, Vol. 15, No. 4, December 2011, 325-336
♦ 2FOOD HABITS AND SEASONAL VARIATION OF STOMACH CONTENTS OF TONGUE SOLE CYNOGLOSSUS SEMILAEVIS (GÜNTHER) IN THE BOHAI SEA, DOU Shuozeng, CHIN. J. OCEANOL. LIMNOL Vol. 11 No. 1 (1993) p. 89-96
♦ 3"Seasonal and Growth Variation of Feeding Habit of Conger Eel (Muraenesox cinereus) in East China Sea", ZHANG Ya-zhou, ZHU Wen-bin, LI Peng-fei, Journal of Zhejiang Ocean University (Natural Science) 2010-03
♦ 4Shuozeng, Dou, and Yang Jiming. "Feeding habit and seasonal variation of ingesting of left-eyed flounder in south Bohai Sea." Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology 1 (1993): 014.
♦ 5Feeding ecology of hairtail Trichiurus margarites and largehead hairtail Trichiurus lepturus in the Beibu Gulf, the South China Sea, YAN Yunrong (颜云榕), HOU Gang (侯刚), CHEN Junlan (陈骏岚), LU Huosheng (卢伙胜), JIN Xianshi (金显仕), Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, Vol. 29 No. 1, P. 174-183, 2011
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0