Odontodactylus Explained

Odontodactylus 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]

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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Odontodactylidae . Stomatopoda: Families . S. T. Ahyong . J. K. Lowry . amp . crustacea.net . September 1, 2001 . August 26, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130503005453/http://www.crustacea.net/crustace/stomatopoda/www/odonto.htm . May 3, 2013 . dead .
2. Tsyr-Huei Chiou . Sonja Kleinlogel . Tom Cronin . Roy Caldwell . Birte Loeffler . Afsheen Siddiqi . Alan Goldizen . Justin Marshall . amp . 2008 . Circular polarization vision in a stomatopod crustacean . . 18 . 6 . 429–434 . 10.1016/j.cub.2008.02.066 . 18356053 . PDF.
3. WoRMS . 2010 . Odontodactylus Bigelow, 1893 . 203960 . January 8, 2012.