Mantis shrimp is a kind of animal that we are familiar with, and it often appears in network pictures and emoticons. However, most people do not know much about them, for example, they think they belong to shrimp because of their name with "shrimp". In fact, although mantis shrimp is named after "shrimp", they are not actually shrimp. The mantis shrimp, whose official name is "mantis shrimp", belongs to the arthropod phylum, Malacostraca, stomatopoda. Shrimp is different, although shrimp are arthropods, but they belong to crustaceans, decapod.
In fact, the difference between mantis shrimp and shrimp is quite big. From the appearance alone, they are quite different. In addition, from its distribution range, the two are also different, mantis shrimp are mainly distributed in tropical and subtropical waters, some live in temperate waters; Shrimp can be distributed in fresh water, and there are many varieties of artificial breeding.
As mentioned above, mantis shrimp does not belong to shrimp, so we cannot confuse the two. In addition, some people think that mantis shrimp is a worm, because both worms and mantis shrimp are arthropods, and mantis shrimp looks a little like a worm from the appearance. In fact, this view is also wrong. Although both are arthropods, their classes are different. As mentioned above, mantis shrimp belongs to Malacostraca, but insects belong to Insecta, and the two do not intersect, so they can not be confused.
