The classification follows Huys (1991). These microscopic crustaceans, recognised in the 1980s, occur as ectoparasites on other host crustaceans, including the copepods, isopods, tanaids and amphipods. The data are drawn largely from Huys (1991), Boxshall & Vader (1993), Huys, Andersen and Kristensen (1992), and Huys, Boxshall and Casanova (1993).References- Boxshall, G.A. & Vader, W. 1993. A new genus of Tantulocarida (Crustacea) parasitic on an amphipod host from the North Sea. J. nat. Hist. 27:977-988.
- Huys, R., 1991. Tantulocarida (Crustacea: Maxillopoda): A new taxon from the temporary meiobenthos, Marine Ecology: Pubblicazione della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli, 12: 1-34.
- Huys, R., Andersen, P.F. and Kristensen, R.M., 1992. Tantulacus hoegi gen. et sp. nov. (Tantulocarida: Deoterthridae) from the meiobenthos of the Faroe Bank, North Atlantic, Sarsia, 76: 287-297.
- Huys, R., Boxshall, G.A. and Casanova, J.-P., 1993. A redescription of Cumoniscus Bonnier, 1903 (Crustacea: Tantulocarida) from a cumacean host in the Bay of Biscay, Systematic Parasitology, 26: 75-79.
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