Stygotantulus
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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| Unrecognized taxon (fix): | Basipodellidae |
| Genus: | Stygotantulus |
| Species: | S. stocki
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| Stygotantulus stocki Boxshall & Huys, 1989 [1]
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It is an ectoparasite on two families of copepods.[3]
References
- ↑ Geoffrey A. Boxshall & Rony Huys. New tantulocarid, Stygotantulus stocki, parasitic on harpacticoid copepods, with an analysis of the phylogenetic relationships within the Maxillopoda. Journal of Crustacean Biology 9 (1) (1989). p. 126–140.
- ↑ Craig R. McClain & Alison G. Boyer. Biodiversity and body size are linked across metazoans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 296 (1665) (2009). p. 2209–2215. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0245.
- ↑ Steen Wilhelm Knudsen, Maja Kierkegaard & Jørgen Olesen. 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. Zootaxa 2035 (2009). p. 41–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2035.1.2.