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Odontodactylus

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Odontodactylus

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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.

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Vinony's link graph records 10 inbound references to Odontodactylus, and connects out to Animalia, Carl Linnaeus and Ancient Greek.

It is catalogued under the topic Stomatopoda.

Vinony links it to 14 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

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GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassMalacostraca
  4. OrderStomatopoda
  5. FamilyOdontodactylidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded2,465

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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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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.

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