Odontodactylus

{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Odontodactylus scyllarus Réunion.jpg

| image_caption = Odontodactylus scyllarus

| display_parents = 2

| parent_authority = Manning, 1980

| taxon = Odontodactylus

| authority = Bigelow, 1893

| type_species = Cancer scyllarus

| type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758

}}

Odontodactylus is a genus of mantis shrimp, the only genus in the family Odontodactylidae.{{cite web |url=http://www.crustacea.net/crustace/stomatopoda/www/odonto.htm |work=Stomatopoda: Families |author1=S. T. Ahyong |author2=J. K. Lowry |name-list-style=amp |title=Odontodactylidae |publisher=crustacea.net |date=September 1, 2001 |access-date=August 26, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130503005453/http://www.crustacea.net/crustace/stomatopoda/www/odonto.htm |archive-date=May 3, 2013 |url-status=dead }} 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.{{cite journal |author1=Tsyr-Huei Chiou |author2=Sonja Kleinlogel |author3=Tom Cronin |author4=Roy Caldwell |author5=Birte Loeffler |author6=Afsheen Siddiqi |author7=Alan Goldizen |author8=Justin Marshall |name-list-style=amp |year=2008 |title=Circular polarization vision in a stomatopod crustacean |journal=Current Biology |volume=18 |issue=6 |pages=429–434 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2008.02.066 |pmid=18356053 |url=http://www.rifters.com/real/articles/Chiou_et_al_MantisShrimpVision.pdf |format=PDF}}

The genus Odontodactylus contains the following species:{{cite WoRMS |author=WoRMS |year=2010 |title=Odontodactylus Bigelow, 1893 |id=203960 |accessdate=January 8, 2012}}

• 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)

Image:Shortnose Mantis Shrimp (11354376784).jpg|Odontodactylus brevirostris

Image:Odontodactylus cultrifer (MNHN-IU-2014-23106) 002.jpeg|Odontodactylus cultrifer

Image:Odontodactylus latirostris.jpg|Odontodactylus latirostris

Image:Odontodactylus scyllarus.jpg|Odontodactylus scyllarus