Stygotantulus
species of crustacean
Stygotantulus stocki is the smallest crustacean in the world.[2] It is less than 0.1 millimetres (0.004 in).
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Tantulocarida |
| Family: | Basipodellidae |
| Genus: | Stygotantulus |
| Species: | S. stocki
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| Binomial name | |
| Stygotantulus stocki Boxshall & Huys, 1989 [1]
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It is an ectoparasite on two families of copepods.[3]
References
change- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
