Photograph of the eye of a Spearing Mantis Shrimp

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A few Facts about the highly developed eyes of a Spearing Mantis Shrimp

The eyes of Mantis Shrimps, which are mounted on stems, are independently mobile and highly developed. Due to the relatively small field of vision, the Spearing Mantis Shrimp keep their eyes constantly moving to observe their surroundings.

The compound eyes of the spearing Mantis Shrimp are divided into three parts: They consist of an upper section, a median strip (usually six rows of ommatidia wide) and a lower section.

Due to the shape of the eyes, the fields of view of the upper and lower sections overlap, as can also be seen from the recognizable pseudopupils.

This enables separate spatial vision with each complex eye.

The ommatidia of the median are specialized in the perception of different light qualities. Some species differentiate between up to 12 color channels, some in the UV range, and can differentiate differently polarized light, including circularly polarized light.

The surroundings are perceived in the overlapping visual area by each eye on several channels in parallel (spatial, color, UV, polarization).

Spearing Mantis Shrimp can use the perception of the sky polarization pattern to orientate themselves in their habitat.

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• We conducted Fish and invertebrate count and surveys, identifying and documentation of fish diversity, monitoring water quality changes, dissection of deceased fish for plastic detection in tissues and digestive organs.

• I was able to achieve great success with our project of coral propagation (restoration and reconstruction of coral reefs). I have been an instructor for CP since 2014 and so over time 2000 new corals have been planted. For this I received an award from the organization “Ocean Quest” and “Sea Shepherd Dive”. Newly planted corals the size of a pinhead are monitored with underwater photography. Success rate of 93%.

• Numerous implementations of underwater clean-up dives and their organization. Every month we collect over 500 kg of garbage from the sea floor. The future vision is to specifically recycle the plastic waste and use it to produce anchor buoys. To document this, both photos and videos are used.

• Construction and setting of permanent anchor buoys so that boats no longer throw their own anchors into the reef and thereby destroy corals. *We train our volunteers to become scientific scuba divers, I teach marine biology, shark protection, coral propagation and underwater clean-up courses.

• Our latest Project is our shark protection project. Due to habitat loss and bad media, we systematically educate the population, counting as well as taking pictures and videos are needed for the identification and to create Databases, to protect biodiversity.

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Sincerely your Daniel Sasse