''Odontodactylus brevirostris'' is a species of

mantis shrimp Mantis shrimp are carnivorous marine crustaceans of the order Stomatopoda (). Stomatopods branched off from other members of the class Malacostraca around 400 million years ago, with more than 520 extant species of mantis shrimp known. All li ...

in the

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Odontodactylidae found in the tropical

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, including

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q4512441 Stomatopoda Arthropods of the Indian Ocean Arthropods of the Pacific Ocean Animals described in 1884 Taxa named by Edward J. Miers