Nervous System
Mantis shrimp have colour vision, Their eyes mounted on mobile stalks and constantly moving about independently of each other and are considered to be the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom. The eye design makes it possible for mantis shrimp to see objects with three different parts of the same eye. In other words, each individual eye possesses trinocular vision and depth perception. The eyes of mantis shrimp may make them able to recognize different types of coral, prey species (which are often transparent or semi-transparent), or predators, such as barracuda, which have shimmering scales. Alternatively, the manner in which mantis shrimp hunt (very rapid movements of the claws) may require very accurate ranging information, which would require accurate depth perception.
They have up to 16 color pigments, can see UV, human visible and polarized light and can perceive depth with only a single eye. Mantis shrimp have spectacular vision!
little is known as to of why the mantis shrimp has such complex eyes, running theory is that they communicate through the use of advanced pigment displays that only eyes advanced as their own could understand, thus making it difficult for researchers to quite put a finger on the mantis shrimps behaviors.
The malacostracan central nervous system consists, in primitive forms, of a ventral nerve cord and ganglia within each body segment. The supraesophageal ganglion innervates the eyes, antennules, and antennae, and the subesophageal ganglion innervates the mouthparts of the head region. In amphipods and anomuran decapods the ganglia of abdominal segments are variously fused. In brachyuran decapods the abdominal and thoracic ganglia are fused into a single central thoracic ganglionic centre.
They have up to 16 color pigments, can see UV, human visible and polarized light and can perceive depth with only a single eye. Mantis shrimp have spectacular vision!
little is known as to of why the mantis shrimp has such complex eyes, running theory is that they communicate through the use of advanced pigment displays that only eyes advanced as their own could understand, thus making it difficult for researchers to quite put a finger on the mantis shrimps behaviors.
The malacostracan central nervous system consists, in primitive forms, of a ventral nerve cord and ganglia within each body segment. The supraesophageal ganglion innervates the eyes, antennules, and antennae, and the subesophageal ganglion innervates the mouthparts of the head region. In amphipods and anomuran decapods the ganglia of abdominal segments are variously fused. In brachyuran decapods the abdominal and thoracic ganglia are fused into a single central thoracic ganglionic centre.