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Odontodactylus
Sign in to saveOdontodactylus (from Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús), meaning "tooth", and δάκτυλος (dáktulos), meaning "finger") is a genus of mantis shrimp, the only genus in the family Odontodactylidae. Mantis shrimp of the genus Odontodactylus can not only detect circular polarisation of light, but can also detect polarised light reflecting off their telson and uropods.
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It is catalogued under the topic Stomatopoda.
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Species
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderStomatopoda
- FamilyOdontodactylidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 21
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Odontodactylidae
- Collections
- MNHN, NMV, QM, WAM, NHMUK, MAGNT
- Recorded in
- Nouvelle-Caledonie, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Hawaiian Islands, Philippines, Indonesia, Montserrat
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Odontodactylidae
- Image
- Odontodactylus scyllarus Réunion.jpg
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- Commons category
- Odontodactylus
- taxon name
- Odontodactylus
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Odontodactylus
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Encyclopedic overview
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Odontodactylus (from Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús), meaning "tooth", and δάκτυλος (dáktulos), meaning "finger") is a genus of mantis shrimp, the only genus in the family Odontodactylidae. Mantis shrimp of the genus Odontodactylus can not only detect circular polarisation of light, but can also detect polarised light reflecting off their telson and uropods.
The genus Odontodactylus contains the following species: Odontodactylus brevirostris (Miers, 1884) Odontodactylus cultrifer (White, 1850) Odontodactylus hansenii (Pocock, 1893) Odontodactylus havanensis (Bigelow, 1893) Odontodactylus hawaiiensis Manning, 1967 Odontodactylus japonicus (de Haan, 1844) Odontodactylus latirostris Borradaile, 1907 Odontodactylus scyllarus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Odontodactylus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.