Tags: Crustacean.

Stygotantulus stocki is a species of crustacean living as an ectoparasite on harpacticoid copepods of the families Tisbidae and Canuellidae. It is the smallest arthropod 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.

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