Protura
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.