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Darcythompsoniidae

Family of crustaceans From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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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]

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Darcythompsonia and Kristensenia are both large-bodied, while Leptocaris species are much smaller.[2]

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