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Odontodactylus (Mantis shrimp)

Wikipedia Abstract

Odontodactylus 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 polarise light reflecting off their telson and uropods. The genus Odontodactylus contains the following species:
View Wikipedia Record: Odontodactylus

Species

Odontodactylus brevirostris
Odontodactylus cultrifer
Odontodactylus hansenii
Odontodactylus havanensis
Odontodactylus hawaiiensis
Odontodactylus italicus
Odontodactylus japonicus
Odontodactylus latirostris
Odontodactylus scyllarus

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0