What is Stygotantulus?
{{italictitle}} {{Speciesbox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Stygotantulus stocki | authority = Boxshall & Huys, 1989&nbsp;<ref>{{cite journal |title=New tantulocarid, ''Stygotantulus stocki'', parasitic on harpacticoid copepods, with an analysis of the phylogenetic relationships within the Maxillopoda |author=Geoffrey A. Boxshall & Rony Huys |journal=[[Journal of Crustacean Biology]] |volume=9 |issue=1 |year=1989 |pages=126–140 |jstor=1548454}}</ref> }} '''''Stygotantulus stocki''''' is the smallest [[crustacean]] in the world.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Biodiversity and body size are linked across metazoans |author=Craig R. McClain & Alison G. Boyer |doi=10.1098/rspb.2009.0245 |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |year=2009 |volume=296 |issue=1665 |pages=2209–2215 |url=http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/suppl/2009/03/16/rspb.2009.0245.DC1/rspb20090245supp01.doc |pmid=19324730 |pmc=2677615}}</ref> It is less than {{convert|0.1|mm|in|sigfig=1}}. It is an [[ectoparasite]] on two [[Family (biology)|families]] of [[copepod]]s.<ref>{{cite journal |journal=[[Zootaxa]] |volume=2035 |pages=41–68 |year=2009 |title=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 |author=Steen Wilhelm Knudsen, Maja Kierkegaard & Jørgen Olesen |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2035.1.2 |s2cid=14384861 |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/zt02035p068.pdf}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Crustaceans]] [[Category:Parasites]]