Stygotantulus

Stygotantulus

Stygotantulus

Stygotantulus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Tantulocarida
Family: Basipodellidae
Genus: Stygotantulus
Species:
S. stocki
Binomial name
Stygotantulus stocki
Boxshall & Huys, 1989 [1]

Stygotantulus stocki is the smallest crustacean in the world.[2] It is less than 0.1 millimetres (0.004 in).

It is an ectoparasite on two families of copepods.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Geoffrey A. Boxshall & Rony Huys (1989). "New tantulocarid, Stygotantulus stocki, parasitic on harpacticoid copepods, with an analysis of the phylogenetic relationships within the Maxillopoda". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 9 (1): 126–140. JSTOR 1548454.
  2. ↑ Craig R. McClain & Alison G. Boyer (2009). "Biodiversity and body size are linked across metazoans". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 296 (1665): 2209–2215. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0245. PMC 2677615. PMID 19324730. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2014-07-09.
  3. ↑ Steen Wilhelm Knudsen, Maja Kierkegaard & Jørgen Olesen (2009). "The tantulocarid genus Arcticotantalus removed from Basipodellidae into Deoterthridae (Crustacea: Maxillopoda) after the description of a new species from Greenland, with first live photographs and an overview of the class" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2035: 41–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2035.1.2. S2CID 14384861.


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