Stygotantulus Explained

Stygotantulus is a genus of crustacean with the sole species Stygotantulus stocki. It lives as an ectoparasite on harpacticoid copepods of the families Tisbidae and Canuellidae.[1] It may be the smallest arthropod in the world, at a length of less than 0.1mm.[2] The specific name stocki commemorates Jan Hendrik Stock, a Dutch carcinologist.[3]

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  1. . 2035 . 41–68 . 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 . Steen Wilhelm Knudsen . Maja Kierkegaard . Jørgen Olesen . amp . 10.11646/zootaxa.2035.1.2 . free .
  2. Biodiversity and body size are linked across metazoans . Craig R. McClain . Alison G. Boyer . amp . 10.1098/rspb.2009.0245 . . 2009 . 276. 1665 . 2209–2215 . 19324730 . 2677615.
  3. Web site: Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names . Hans G. Hanssen . . 2005 . 2009-12-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060129194502/http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.s.html . 2006-01-29 . dead .

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