STYGOTANTULUS STOCKI is a species of crustacean , living as an ectoparasite on harpacticoid copepods of the families Tisbidae and Canuellidae . It is one of the smallest arthropods in the world, at a length of less than 0.1 millimetres (0.004 in). The specific epithet stocki commemorates Jan Hendrik Stock , a Dutch carcinologist . Another contender for the world\'s smallest arthropod is Tantulacus dieteri, with a total body length of only 85 micrometres (0.0033 in).

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* ^ 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. JSTOR 1548454 . doi :10.2307/1548454 . * ^ Steen Wilhelm Knudsen, Maja Kierkegaard ">(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 . 276 (1665): 2209–2215. PMC 2677615  . PMID 19324730 . doi :10.1098/rspb.2009.0245 . * ^ Hans G. Hanssen (2005). "Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names". Göteborgs Universitet . * ^ Inga Mohrbeck, Pedro Martínez Arbizu & Thomas Glatzel (October 2010). " Tantulocarida (Crustacea) of the Southern Ocean deep sea, and the description of three new species of Tantulacus Huys, Andersen & Kristensen, 1992". Systematic Parasitology . 77 (2): 131–151. doi :10.1007/s11230-010-9260-0 .

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