| Stygotantulus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| 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
References
References
- 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). "Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names". Göteborgs Universitet. Archived from the original on 2006-01-29. Retrieved 2009-12-20.