Order | PROTURA (proturans) |
Class | ENTOGNATHA (springtails, proturans and diplurans) |
Subphylum | HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms) |
Phylum | ARTHROPODA (arthropods) |
Superphylum | ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders) |
Clade | Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals) |
Subkingdom | EUMETAZOA (metazoans) |
Kingdom | ANIMALIA (animals) |
Domain | Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
Life | BIOTA (living things) |
NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for PROTURA (proturans) |
Handling & Magnification | Author | Year | Title | Source |
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Cloudsley-Thompson, J.L. & Sankey, J. | 1961 | Land Invertebrates, a guide to British worms, molluscs and arthropods, excluding insects | 156pp, Methuen & Co. Ltd. |
PROTURA (proturans) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:
A small group of primitive wingless insects with metamorphosis mainly of increasing number of segments. The tiny insects are found in soil, peat, leaf litter and under stones, bark etc.
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