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. 2013 Summer;12(2):133–138. doi: 10.1187/cbe.13-03-0056

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Figure 3. — The raptorial forelimb of the stomatopod is used as a club in some species and as a spear in others, with high strike speeds achieved by storing mechanical energy. (Photo courtesy of Roy Caldwell, Museum of Paleontology, University of California–Berkeley.) The drawing, showing the saddle structure, is adapted from Burrows (1969) via the Arthropoda blog (http://arthropoda.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/why-stomatopods-are-awesome-i-super-strength).