| Darcythompsoniidae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Copepoda |
| Order: | Harpacticoida |
| Family: | Darcythompsoniidae Lang, 1936 |
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Darcythompsoniidae is a family of copepods, containing four genera. Members of the family have a very wide distribution throughout the tropics, where they live in rotting mangrove leaves. They lack egg sacs and are thought to lay their eggs directly into the leaf litter.
Darcythompsonia and Kristensenia are both large-bodied, while Leptocaris species are much smaller.
References
- Rony Huys (2011). Walter TC, Boxshall G (eds.). "Darcythompsoniidae". World of Copepods database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
- ^ 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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