canocchia
Squilla mantis
#nm_0577📍 Italy
- Language
- Italian
- Transliteration
- canocchia
- IPA
- /kaˈnɔkkja/
Italian canocchia (mantis shrimp); origin uncertain — the popular claim that it derives from pannocchia (corn cob) is not attested in any dictionary
Burrowing mantis shrimp about 20 cm long, with enlarged raptorial forelimbs used to strike prey. Lives in soft sediment of the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic.