Stygotantulus
| Stygotantulus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Maxillopoda |
| Subclass: | Tantulocarida |
| Family: | Basipodellidae |
| Genus: | Stygotantulus Boxshall & Huys, 1989 |
| Species: | S. stocki |
| Binomial name | |
| Stygotantulus stocki Boxshall & Huys, 1989 [1] | |
Stygotantulus stocki is a species of crustacean, living as an ectoparasite on harpacticoid copepods of the families Tisbidae and Canuellidae.[2] It is the smallest arthropod in the world, at a length of less than 0.1 millimetres (0.004 in).[3] The specific epithet stocki commemorates Jan Hendrik Stock, a Dutch carcinologist.[4]
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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Hans G. Hanssen (2005). "Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names". Göteborgs Universitet.
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