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Taxon: Order Zygentoma Börner, 1904 - silverfish (invertebrate)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Arthropoda - (Class) Insecta

Current position

Thysanura (Infraclass) Latreille, 1796

Ref: D. Grimaldi & M.S. Engel, 2005: table 4.1. [assumed]

Alternative positions

*Dicondylia* ([unranked]) Haeckel, 1866	Ref: D. Grimaldi & M.S. Engel, 2005: table 4.1.
*Insecta* (Class) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: Z.-Q. Zhang, 2013: 20.

Historical positions

*Insecta* (Class) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: Z.-Q. Zhang, 2013: 20.
*Insecta* (Class) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: Z.-Q. Zhang, 2011: 100.
*Dicondylia* ([unranked]) Haeckel, 1866	Ref: D. Grimaldi & M.S. Engel, 2005: 150-152, table 4.1.

Number of Subtaxa

2026	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	5f;19g;22s; †3g;3s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	5f
2013	Z.-Q. Zhang: 20	574*[554]s; †20s
2011	Z.-Q. Zhang: 100	561*[560]s; †1s
2005	D. Grimaldi & M.S. Engel: 151	5f

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