Japanese Mantis Shrimp

Japan national team · “Samurai Blue” (Japan)

Fun fish fact: mantis shrimps dig long U-shaped burrows in the soft seabed, and in Japan they are a sushi called shako. Football: Japan, the "Samurai Blue", co-hosted the 2002 World Cup with South Korea.

Source: Wikipedia

A mantis shrimp has a super-fast punch and big eyes on stalks that see more colours than we can. In Japan, home of the Samurai Blue, it digs a tunnel in the sand with a front door and a back door. This one practises its punch like a goalkeeper punching a cross clear.

On Futbol Island the japanese mantis shrimp can be caught at:

• Farm Beach: The sunny south beach below Coral Cay Farm. Cod and haddock nose along the sandy bottom, and the farmers swap fruit for the catch.

Size on the island: 10–20 cm.