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Stygotantulus
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 is 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] Another contender for the world's smallest arthropod is Tantulacus dieteri, with a total body length of only 85 micrometres (0.0033 in).[6]
| Stygotantulus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Tantulocarida |
| Family: | Basipodellidae |
| Genus: | Stygotantulus Boxshall & Huys, 1989 [1] |
| Species: | S. stocki |
| Binomial name | |
| Stygotantulus stocki Boxshall & Huys, 1989 [1] | |
References
- ^ a b 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. JSTOR 1548454.
- ^ "Stygotantulus Boxshall & Huys, 1989". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2022. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. PMC 2677615. PMID 19324730.
- ^ Hans G. Hanssen (2005). . Göteborgs Universitet. Archived from the original on 2006-01-29. Retrieved 2009-12-20.
- ^ Inga Mohrbeck; Pedro Martínez Arbizu & Thomas Glatzel (October 2010). "Tantulocarida (Crustacea) of the Southern Ocean deep sea, and the description of three new species of Tantulacus Huys, Andersen & Kristensen, 1992". Systematic Parasitology. 77 (2): 131–151. doi:10.1007/s11230-010-9260-0. PMID 20852984.