Mantis Shrimp Capture Technique.m4v

This short video was taken by Diarmaid Ó Foighil in the Indian River Lagoon (Florida) and it demonstrates the bait-and-capture technique (Goto et al., 2018) used by first author Teal Harrison* to collect Lysiosquilla scabricauda specimens. A bait fish was placed directly over a submerged host mantis shrimp burrow opening and once a resident emerged, its raptorial appendages were sequentially grasped by hand and, as it tired, the specimen was slowly pulled upward out of its burrow.

*Teal A. Harrison, Ryutaro Goto, Jingchun Li, Diarmaid Ó Foighil. Within-host adaptive speciation of commensal yoyo clams leads to ecological exclusion, not co-existence (In Prep.).

Goto, R., Harrison, T., Ó Foighil, D. 2018. Within-host speciation events in yoyo clams, obligate commensals with mantis shrimps: one involving a change in microhabitat and a loss of specialized traits. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 124:504-517. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/bly044