Neanuridae
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The family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Neanuridae contains pudgy short-legged springtail
Springtail
Springtails form the largest of the three lineages of modern hexapods that are no longer considered insects...

s of the order
Order (biology)
In scientific classification used in biology, the order is# a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, family, genus, and species, with order fitting in between class and family...

 Poduromorpha
Poduromorpha
The order Poduromorpha is one of the three main groups of springtails , tiny hexapods related to insects. This group was formerly treated as a superfamily Poduroidea....

. It was established by Carl Börner in 1901.

Systematics

There are six subfamilies currently recognized:
  • Caputanurininae
  • Frieseinae
  • Morulininae
  • Neanurinae
    Neanurinae
    The subfamily Neanuridae contains pudgy short-legged springtails of the order Poduromorpha. It was established by Carl Börner in 1901 – or rather, it is the result of taxa being split out of Börner's family whereas the type genus and its...

  • Pseudachorutinae
  • Uchidanurinae


The peculiar genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 Pseudoxenylla is of uncertain relationships and hence not assigned to a subfamily yet.
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