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Zygentoma
Sign in to saveZygentoma are an order in the class Insecta, and consist of about 550 known species. The Zygentoma include the silverfishes or fishmoths, and the firebrats. A conspicuous feature of the order are the three long caudal filaments. The two lateral filaments are cerci, and the medial one is an epiproct or appendix dorsalis. In this they resemble the Archaeognatha, although the cerci of Zygentoma, unlike in the latter order, are nearly as long as the epiproct.
Species
ORDER
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderZygentoma
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 204
- With media
- 8
- Collections
- FMNH, INHS, DMNS, MNA, UCSB, SDNHM
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico, Australia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Dicondylia
- Image
- Lepisma saccharina 1a.JPG
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- Commons category
- Zygentoma
- taxon rank
- order
- taxon name
- Zygentoma
- taxon common name
- børstehaler
- topic's main category
- Category:Zygentoma
- taxon synonym
- Thysanura
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Description and ecology
- Aggregation behaviour
- Taxonomy
- Evolutionary history
- Reproduction
- Research for biofuel production
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Zygentoma are an order in the class Insecta, and consist of about 550 known species. The Zygentoma include the silverfishes or fishmoths, and the firebrats. A conspicuous feature of the order are the three long caudal filaments. The two lateral filaments are cerci, and the medial one is an epiproct or appendix dorsalis. In this they resemble the Archaeognatha, although the cerci of Zygentoma, unlike in the latter order, are nearly as long as the epiproct.
Until the late twentieth century the Zygentoma were regarded as a suborder of the Thysanura, until it was recognized that the order Thysanura was paraphyletic, thus raising the two suborders to the status of independent monophyletic orders, with Archaeognatha as sister group to the Dicondylia, including the Zygentoma. thumb|
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