Mantis shrimp gender

[Why so serious]

Please tell me it’s a male or female

 

[Impala67]

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Can you get some better pictures of the under belly in better light if make it will have two stick like barbs pointed inwards just past the last set of walking legs if female there won’t be anything there or just two little white bumps in it’s place.

 

[Why so serious]

Can you get some better pictures of the under belly in better light if make it will have two stick like barbs pointed inwards just past the last set of walking legs if female there won’t be anything there or just two little white bumps in it’s place.

Here are more pictures please let me know thanks

 

[HudsonReefer2.0]

It’s a they/them

 

[Impala67]

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Here are more pictures please let me know thanks

Congratulations it’s a girl lol

 

[Spare time]

For future reference, the term here to use would be sex. Gender in animals refers to division of labor within sexes.

 

[Why so serious]

Congratulations it’s a girl lol

Oh thanks