Mantis 'shrimp' deserve a beetter common name!!

[micstarz]

Since stomatopods aren't shrimp, I think they deserve their own real name...

I thought of the word "mantarid."

If you like it, please spread it around and popularize it! If you don't, then please help suggest a better one.

I couldn't think of another word that has the same kind of "mantis" feel to it.

 

[Gene0514]

Mantipod

 

[micstarz]

 

[BIGgourami]

thumbsplitters

 

[micstarz]

Oh yeah...forgot about that. But isn't that the common name for one particular species?

 

[Will Hayward]

How about... Mantis Shrimp!

I mean, they look like a mantis and a shrimp!

If you complain they aren't a shrimp and shouldn't be calling them a shrimp, surely you cannot call them a Mantis either! On top of that they are far more shrimp like than mantis like.

 

[micstarz]

Well you're right, but I just want to make a new word, you know...;D

 

[bromie88]

i think MANTIPOD is way up there...

has a nice ring to it.

 

[metalyx]

Perhaps we could call them the
evolutionious proofticus?
Mantipora? Sounds familiar...
(specific name) Mantid?
Finally, Terrible water bug thing!

 

[micstarz]

Lol at terrible water bug thing!