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 may be the 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]

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

See also

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. doi:10.2307/1548454. JSTOR 1548454.
  2. "Stygotantulus Boxshall & Huys, 1989". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2022. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  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.
  4. 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.
  5. Hans G. Hanssen (2005). "Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names". Göteborgs Universitet. Archived from the original on 2006-01-29. Retrieved 2009-12-20.


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