Token Cancer - Mantis 2019 MMD

Coin-token "Mantis Cancer"

Series "5 Chervontsy. Red Book of the USSR. MMD". Seventeenth token in the series.

Artist: Ivanov M.A.
Sculptor: Parfyonov A.I.

Release Date: 2019

 Mantis cancer (Latin: Oratosquilla oratoria) is a large carnivorous, ornate crustacean of the genus Oratosquilla of the family Squillidae. Length up to 20 cm, weight up to 200 grams. It occurs in the Western Pacific Ocean from Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands to Peter the Great Bay (Sea of ​​Japan), which is its northern distribution boundary. It lives in shallow water at a depth of 5 to 37 meters. It is a predator, digs holes in which it spends most of its life. Eyes contain 16 types of photosensitive cells (for comparison, human eyes - 3 types). Mantis cancer can strike with claws with a 22-caliber bulle