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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Stomatopoda |
| Family: | Hemisquillidae |
| Genus: | Hemisquilla Hansen, 1895 |
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Hemisquilla is a genus of mantis shrimp, and the only genus in the family Hemisquillidae.[1] It contains four species distributed in Australia and the Americas. Species in the genus typically eat snails, fish, rock oysters, and smaller crustaceans like crabs. They are preyed upon by larger bony fishes and cephalopods.[1] It is the most basal living mantis shrimp lineage, and the sister group to all other mantis shrimp.[2]
- ^ a b "Hemisquilla - Encyclopedia of Life". eol.org. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
- ^ Van Der Wal, Cara; Ahyong, Shane T.; Ho, Simon Y.W.; Lo, Nathan (2017-09-21). "The evolutionary history of Stomatopoda (Crustacea: Malacostraca) inferred from molecular data". PeerJ. 5: e3844. doi:10.7717/peerj.3844. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 5610894. PMID 28948111.