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-{{Species-infobox
+{{species infobox
-|title=Preying Mantas
+|image=[[File:YNI Model PreyingMantas.png|150px]]<br>''Yoshi's New Island'' in-game model
-|image=[[File:Preying_Mantis.PNG]]
 |first_appearance=''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'' ([[List of games by date#1995|1995]])
 |latest_appearance=''[[Yoshi's New Island]]'' ([[List of games by date#2014|2014]])
+|subject_origin=[[Jellyfish]]
+|comparable=[[Jellybeam]]
 }}
-A '''Preying Mantas'''<ref>''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'' Nintendo Player's Guide. [[Media:SMW2 Guide 128.jpg|Page 128]].</ref> is a [[Jellyfish]] found underwater in ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'' and its remake ''[[Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3]]''. Their name is a pun on {{wp|praying mantis}}, which is a kind of insect, and {{wp|manta ray}}, a kind of stingray, while enemy itself is designed after jellyfish. Preying Mantas move up and down in a small area, and therefore do not pose much of a threat to the [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshis]]. The Yoshis can simply defeat them by shooting a torpedo at them in their [[Submarine (form)|Submarine]] forms. They appear again as enemies in ''[[Yoshi's New Island]]''.
+A '''Preying Mantas'''<ref name=NP>{{cite|author=Miller, Kent; Munson, Terry|title=''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'' Player's Guide|language=American English|publisher=Nintendo of America|date=1995|page=[[media:SMW2 Guide 128.jpg|128]]}}</ref> is a [[jellyfish]] found underwater in ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'', its [[Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3|Game Boy Advance version]], and ''[[Yoshi's New Island]]''. Its name is a pun on {{wp|praying mantis}}, a kind of insect, and {{wp|manta ray}}, a kind of stingray. Preying Mantas move up and down in a small area, and therefore do not pose much of a threat to the [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshi]]s. The Yoshis can simply defeat them by shooting a torpedo at them in their [[Submarine Yoshi|Submarine]] forms.
+{{br|left}}
+==Profiles==
+===''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'' / ''Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3''===
+*'''Shogakukan guide:''' 水中をユラユラと浮き沈みしている。さわらなければ無害。<ref name=Sho/> (''Floats up and down in the water. Harmless if not touched.'')
+*'''[[Nintendo Power|Player's Guide]]:''' ''Moving up and down, Preying Mantas feast on Yoshi submarines. Prey on them with torpedoes.''<ref name=NP/>
+*'''Shogakukan guide ([[Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3|Game Boy Advance version]]):''' 水中をゆらゆらと浮きしずみしている。さわらなければ無害。<ref name=Advance/> (''Floats up and down in the water. Harmless if not touched.'')
+===''Yoshi's New Island''===
+*'''Shogakukan guide:''' 潜水艦に変身して水中を進むときに出現する。攻擊してくることはないが、上下にゆっくりと移動する。触れるとタイムロスとなるので、避けるか魚雷で倒そう。<ref name=YNI/> (''They appear when you transform into a submarine and proceed underwater. It does not attack, but moves slowly up and down. Touching it will cause time loss, so avoid it or use torpedoes to defeat it.'')
+==Gallery==
+<gallery>
+Preying Mantas.png|''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''
+SMAGPB Yoshi.jpg|''[[Super Mario Game Picture Book 4]]: Hang in There, Yoshi''
+SMA3-PreyingMantas.png|''Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3''
+</gallery>
-{{br|left}}
 ==Names in other languages==
 {{foreign names
-|Jap=<span class="explain" title="くらげ">海月</span><ref>[[Media:Advance 3 Shogakukan P16.png|「スーパーマリオアドバンス3任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Super Mario Advance 3 Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook''), page 16.]]</ref>
+|Jap={{ruby|海月|くらげ}}<ref name=Sho>{{cite|language=Japanese|publisher=Shogakukan|title=「スーパーマリオヨッシーアイランド任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Super Mario: Yossy Island Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'')|page=[[media:Super Mario Yossy Island Shogakukan P7.jpg|7]]}}</ref><ref name=Advance>{{cite|language=Japanese|publisher=Shogakukan|title=「スーパーマリオアドバンス3任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Super Mario Advance 3 Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'')|page=[[media:Advance 3 Shogakukan P16.png|16]]}}</ref> / くらげ<ref name=Sho/><ref name=YNI>{{cite|language=Japanese|publisher=Shogakukan|title=「ヨッシー New アイランド 任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Yoshi's New Island Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'')|page=[[Media:Yoshi New Island Shogakukan P19.jpg|19]]}}</ref>
 |JapR=Kurage
 |JapM=Jellyfish
-|Fra=Médusie
+}}
-|FraM=Derived from ''méduse'' (jellyfish)}}
+==Trivia==
+*During the development of ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'', bony versions of Preying Mantas were considered, which would have apparently walked on land and acted like [[Dry Bones]].<ref>{{cite|author=TCRF|title=[[tcrf:Development:Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island/Sprites#Skeleton Jellyfish|Development:Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island/Sprites § Skeleton Jellyfish]]|publisher=The Cutting Room Floor|accessdate=May 15, 2023}}</ref>
 ==References==
 <references/>
 {{YI}}
 {{YNI}}
 [[Category:Jellyfish]]
-[[Category:Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island Enemies]]
+[[Category:Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island enemies]]
-[[Category:Yoshi Species]]
+[[Category:Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 enemies]]
-[[Category:Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3]]
+[[Category:Yoshi's New Island enemies]]
-[[Category:Yoshi's New Island Enemies]]
+[[it:Preying Mantas]]