Darcythompsoniidae
| Darcythompsoniidae | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Maxillopoda |
| Subclass: | Copepoda |
| Order: | Harpacticoida |
| Family: | Darcythompsoniidae Lang, 1936 |
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Darcythompsoniidae is a family of copepods, containing four genera.[1] Members of the family have a very wide distribution throughout the tropics, where they live in rotting mangrove leaves.[2][3] They lack egg sacs and are thought to lay their eggs directly into the leaf litter.[4]
Darcythompsonia and Kristensenia are both large-bodied, while Leptocaris species are much smaller.[2]
References
- ↑ Rony Huys (2011). T. C. Walter & G. Boxshall, eds. "Darcythompsoniidae". World of Copepods database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
- 1 2 F. D. Por (1983). "Mangrove swamp-inhabiting Harpacticoida of the family Darcythompsoniidae Lang". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 3 (1): 141–153. doi:10.2307/1547859. JSTOR 1547859.
- ↑ S. Gómez (2000). "A new genus, a new species, and a new record of the family Darcythompsoniidae Lang, 1936 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from the Gulf of California, Mexico". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 129 (4): 515–536. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb00615.x.
- ↑ J. Michael Gee & Paul J. Somerfield (1007). "Do mangrove diversity and leaf litter decay promote meiofaunal diversity?". Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 218 (1): 13–33. doi:10.1016/S0022-0981(97)00065-8.
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