Stygotantulus stocki is a species In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are often used, such as based on similarity of DNA or of crustacean Crustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at 0.1 mm (0.004 in), to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span of up to 14 ft (4.3 m) and a mass, living as an ectoparasite Parasitism is a type of symbiotic relationship between organisms of different species where one organism, the parasite, benefits at the expense of the host on harpacticoid Harpacticoida is an order of copepods, in the Subphylum Crustacea. This order comprises 463 genera and about 3,000 species. Members of it are benthic copepods found throughout the world in the marine environment and in fresh water (essentially the Ameiridae, Parastenocarididae and the Canthocamptidae). A few of them are planktonic or live in copepods Copepods are a group of small crustaceans found in the sea and nearly every freshwater habitat. Many species are planktonic (drifting in sea waters), but more are benthic (living on the ocean floor), and some continental species may live in limno-terrestrial habitats and other wet terrestrial places, such as swamps, under leaf fall in wet forests, of the families Tisbidae and Canuellidae.[2] It is the smallest arthropod An arthropod is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton , a segmented body, and jointed appendages. Arthropods are members of the Phylum Arthropoda (from Greek ἄρθρον arthron, "joint", and ποδός podos "foot", which together mean "jointed feet"), and include the insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and in the world, at a length of less than 0.1 millimetres (0.004 in).[3] The specific epithet In zoological nomenclature, a specific name is the second part (second name) in the name of a species (a binomen). The first part is the name of the genus stocki commemorates Jan Hendrik Stock, a Dutch Catholicism, Protestantism , Nontheism carcinologist.[4]

References

  1. ^ 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. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1548454.
  2. ^ 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". Zootaxa Zootaxa is an international journal for animal taxonomists. It is published in English by Magnolia Press in Auckland, New Zealand. The journal was founded by Z.-Q. Zhang in 2001 2035: 41–68. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/zt02035p068.pdf.
  3. ^ 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 A digital object identifier is a character string used to uniquely identify an electronic document or other object. Metadata about the object is stored in association with the DOI name and this metadata may include a location, such as a URL, where the object can be found. The DOI for a document is permanent, whereas its location and other metadata:10.1098/rspb.2009.0245. http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/suppl/2009/03/16/rspb.2009.0245.DC1/rspb20090245supp01.doc.
  4. ^ Hans G. Hanssen (2005). "Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names". Göteborgs Universitet The University of Gothenburg is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.s.html.
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