Darcythompsoniidae
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| Darcythompsoniidae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| 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.[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]
