Protura
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| Protura | |
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| Acerentomon doderoi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Hexapoda |
| Class: | Entognatha |
| Order: | Protura Silvestri, 1907 |
The Protura, or proturans, and sometimes nicknamed coneheads are an order of hexapod animals previously regarded as insects, and sometimes treated as a class in their own right. There is some evidence that the Protura are basal to all other hexapods, although hexapods are increasingly thought to be polyphyletic.
