Science. 1983 Aug 5;221(4610):558-60. doi: 10.1126/science.221.4610.558.
After molting, stomatopods can be evicted easily from home cavities by conspecifics because these marine crustaceans lose temporarily their body armor and the use of their raptorial appendages. Some newly molted stomatopods defend their cavities with a meral spread display, a signal correlated with attack when used by animals between molts. The use of the meral spread display actually increases after molting. Since new molts cannot fight, their use of meral spread appears to be a bluff.
蜕皮后，十足目动物会因为暂时失去身体盔甲和捕食附肢而很容易被同类逐出巢穴。一些刚蜕皮的十足目动物会用展开的鳞片展示来保护自己的巢穴，这种信号在动物蜕皮期间是与攻击相关的。蜕皮后，这种鳞片展开展示的使用实际上会增加。由于新蜕的壳无法进行战斗，它们使用鳞片展开展示似乎是在虚张声势。
