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Encyclopedia: Protura

The Protura, or proturans, are an order of hexapods previously treated as insects, and sometimes treated as a class ^[2]. They are very small (<2 mm long) soil-dwelling animals and are unique among arthropods for showing anamorphic development, whereby body segments are added during moults ^[3]. A total of around 500 species have been described worldwide, in four to eight families ^[1], making Protura the smallest class in the phylum Arthropoda ^[4].

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How to say "Protura" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	原尾目
	(Japanese)	カマアシムシ
	(German)	Beintastler
	(Spanish)	Protura
	(French)	Protura
	(Italian)	Protura

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Proturan

Protura Scientific classification : Animalia Phylum :|| Arthropoda Subphylum :|| Hexapoda Order :|| Protura Families Acerentomidae Eosentomidae Protentomidae Proturans (Order Protura ) are one of the three hexapod groups that are no longer considered insects...

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Hexapoda

orders: ���Order Diplura ���Order Collembola (springtails) ���Order Protura Classes & Orders... related to insects: Collembola, Protura, and Diplura. The Collembola (or springtails) are very abundant in... Segment II. Antennae (sensory), absent in Protura Segment III. None Segment IV. Mandibles (crushing...

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Antenna (biology)

Antennae (singular antenna ), are the paired appendages connecting to the first (and in crustaceans also to the second) segment of the head of the members of all subphyla of the arthropods except Chelicerata. Also the members of the order protura lack them. antennae of a luna moth Antennae...

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Springtail

orders of modern Hexapods that are no longer considered to be insects (along with the Protura and...

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Pterygota

are no longer considered to be insects: Protura , Collembola , and Diplura...

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Arthropod

Order Protura Subphylum Crustacea Remipedia Cephalocarida Branchiopoda Ostracoda Mystacocarida...

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