Talk:Smallest organisms

Amphibian
The article on Monte Iberia Eleuth (Eleutherodactylus iberia)states that the Brazilian Gold Frog is the smallest frog in the world. Yet the article on the Gold Frog suggests this is not true and Eleutherodactylus limbatus may be smaller. So there is some confusion here for frog people to sort out.


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Plants & Fungi
Where are the plants and fungi? Surely there are some tiny examples out there! -Athaler (talk) 15:34, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Nanobacteria
Somebody ought to include a brief synopsis of Nanobacteria, possibly in the same section as the Nanobes. Ninjatacoshell (talk) 19:32, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

what is this 2kb genome in the virus section? not everyone is a phd at biology ¬¬ 189.113.254.155 (talk) 22:36, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Mircobes
This generally talks about genomic size, but it should also talk about physical size. Viruses are small because of their capsid size and because of their genomic size, so both categories should be covered, and bacteria, archea, eukarya. 76.65.128.132 (talk) 20:03, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Shouldn't Nanoarchaeum be removed since it is larger than Mycoplasma genitalium? --Oceans and oceans (talk) 10:22, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Warm blooded animal
The article says the Bee Hummingbird (1.8 grams and a length of 5 cm) is "the world's smallest bird species and the smallest warm-blooded vertebrate". But later it says that the Kitti's Hog-nosed Bat (bumblebee bat) is "the smallest mammal, at 30–40 mm in length and 1.5 to 2 g in weight".

So the bat is smaller by both criteria than the bird. So the bee hummingbird cannot be the "smallest warm-blooded vertebrate".

Can someone please verify which entry is wrong? Either the bird is not the smallest or some of the measurements are incorrect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.249.1.202 (talk) 20:16, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Smallest animal?
Does anyone know what the smallest animal is? I feel like that's kind of important LieutenantLatvia (talk) 22:23, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Could be Nanaloricus mysticus, a Loriciferan. Abductive  (reasoning) 02:54, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
 * What is it's size in μm?LieutenantLatvia (talk) 23:48, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I dunno if this site is reliable: http://www.storyofsize.com/brush-heads. Abductive  (reasoning) 01:14, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Nanobes?
I feel the article should differentiate between widely accepted categories of organisms such as Eukaryote and more controversial ones such as nanobes - which are geometrically too small to contain the machinery we traditionally associate with life.--Frozenport (talk) 19:04, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

Smallest fish
The smallest fish I came across in my re-search is Schindleria brevipenguis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindleria_brevipinguis. Males and females are of similar size. Watson, W., & Walker, H. J. jr. (2004). The world’s smallest vertebrate, Schindleria brevipinguis, a new paedomorphic species in the family Schindleriidae (Perciformes: Gobioidei). Records of the Astralian Museum, 56, 139–142.90.184.244.239 (talk) 21:57, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

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Tardigrades
How is it possible there is no mention to the tardigrades in this article? The SMALLEST ANIMAL there is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 177.140.164.213 (talk) 16:51, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

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Repetitious conversions
Suggest we put a reminder near the start of the article of what namometres and micrometres are, and then remove the excessively repetitious conversions of those units to millimetres. Ehrenkater (talk) 08:19, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

Tiniest Mite
I notice that the text around mites is: Cochlodispus minimus is the smallest mite. An adult individual measured with a body length of 79 μm (0.079 mm).[23] However, PBS claims "The tiniest mite on record is 82 microns long" but does not name a species.[24]

I'm not quite sure how the PBS claim is at all relevant or adds information in light of a cited primary source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bphillab (talk • contribs) 22:45, 6 January 2024 (UTC)