Odontodactylus

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

Odontodactylus
Odontodactylus scyllarus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Stomatopoda
Superfamily:	Gonodactyloidea
Family:	Odontodactylidae Manning, 1980
Genus:	Odontodactylus Bigelow, 1893
Type species
Cancer scyllarus Linnaeus, 1758

The genus Odontodactylus contains the following species:^[3]

• 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)

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  Odontodactylus brevirostris
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  Odontodactylus cultrifer
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  Odontodactylus latirostris
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  Odontodactylus scyllarus