Odontodactylus

Odontodactylus
Odontodactylus scyllarus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Stomatopoda
Superfamily: Gonodactyloidea
Family: Odontodactylidae
Manning, 1980
Genus: Odontodactylus
Bigelow, 1893
Species [1]
  • Odontodactylus brevirostris (Miers, 1884)
  • Odontodactylus hanseni (Pocock, 1893)
  • Odontodactylus havanensis (Bigelow, 1893)
  • Odontodactylus hawaiiensis Manning, 1967
  • Odontodactylus scyllarus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Odontodactylus is a genus of mantis shrimp, the only genus in the family Odontodactylidae.[2]

Mantis shrimp of the genus Odontodactylus can not only detect circular polarisation of light, but can polarise light reflecting off their telson and uropods.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Odontodactylus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=99206. 
  2. ^ S. T. Ahyong & J. K. Lowry (2001-09-01). "Odontodactylidae". Stomatopoda: Families. crustacea.net. http://www.crustacea.net/crustace/stomatopoda/www/odonto.htm. 
  3. ^ Tsyr-Huei Chiou, Sonja Kleinlogel, Tom Cronin, Roy Caldwell, Birte Loeffler & Afsheen Siddiqi (2008). "Circular polarization vision in a stomatopod crustacean". Current Biology 18 (6): 429–434. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2008.02.066. PMID 18356053.