Stomatopods have the most sophisticated visual system in the world. Stomatopods are the only invertebrates in which individual recognition has been strongly documented for non-mated individuals. This simply means that some stomatopods are capable of distinguishing one individual in the species from other individuals, and then act accordingly. Stomatopod communication has one of the fastest information transmission rates in the animal kingdom. Dr. Roy Caldwell notes that he has followed a monogamous pair of Lysiosquillina maculata for nearly 15 years.
Stomatopods are widely-used as an effective way to measure the health of coral reefs .