Biology:Stygotantulus
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Short description: Species of crustacean
| Stygotantulus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Tantulocarida |
| Family: | Basipodellidae |
| Genus: | Stygotantulus Boxshall & Huys, 1989 [1] |
| Species: | S. stocki
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| Binomial name | |
| Stygotantulus stocki Boxshall & Huys, 1989 [1]
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Stygotantulus is a genus of crustacean with the sole species Stygotantulus stocki.[2] It lives as an ectoparasite on harpacticoid copepods of the families Tisbidae and Canuellidae.[3] It may be the smallest arthropod in the world, at a length of less than 0.1 millimetres (0.004 in).[4] The specific name stocki commemorates Jan Hendrik Stock, a Dutch carcinologist.[5]
See also
- Smallest organisms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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. doi:10.2307/1548454.
- ↑ "Stygotantulus Boxshall & Huys, 1989". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2022. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=136597.
- ↑ 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". Zootaxa 2035: 41–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2035.1.2. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/zt02035p068.pdf.
- ↑ Craig R. McClain; Alison G. Boyer (2009). "Biodiversity and body size are linked across metazoans". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 (1665): 2209–2215. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0245. PMID 19324730.
- ↑ Hans G. Hanssen (2005). "Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names". Göteborgs Universitet. http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.s.html.
Wikidata ☰ Q15887840 entry
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