species: Gonodactylaceus falcatus in Lizard Island Field Guide (Lizard Island Field Guide)
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Gonodactylaceus falcatus


©Roy Caldwell: Gonodactylaceus falcatus, female.

©Roy Caldwell: Gonodactylaceus falcatus, female.

©Roy Caldwell: Gonodactylaceus falcatus, male.

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Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Malacostraca
Order Stomatopoda
Family Gonodactylidae
Genus Gonodactylaceus
Species Gonodactylaceus falcatus

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Colours

                             

Distinguishing features

"Telson with five, mid-dorsal carinae; pairs of black spots on anterior telson and 6th abdominal tergite; yellow-green meral spot."

"Highly color polymorphic, green, cream, tan mottle, greenish yellow meral spot."

Lives in "cavities in rubble and live coral".

Quotes from Roy's List accessed 13 Oct 2018, link below.

Roy Caldwell advises that this species is sexually dimorphic at Lizard Island.

Size

  • From 0.7 cm to 8 cm (Length)

Depth range

  • From 0 m to 10 m

Synonyms

Distribution


©Atlas of Living Australia: Australian distribution

Local abundance

  • Lizard Island: Common in reef flat areas

Web resources

References

  • Ahyong, S.T. (2001). Revision of the stomatopod Crustacea, Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement, 26: 1-326. LIRS catalog number LIRS 2099.
  • Feller, K.D., J.H. Cohen and T.W. Cronin (2015). Seeing double: visual physiology of double-retina eye ontogeny in stomatopod crustaceans, Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 201: 331-339. LIRS catalog number 1876.
  • Palecanda, K.D. Feller and M.L. Porter, S. (2020). Using larval barcoding to estimate stomatopod species richness at Lizard Island, Australia for conservation monitoring. Scientific Reports, 10: 10990. LIRS catalog number LIRS 2397.
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