Neanuridae
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The family
Neanuridae contains pudgy short-legged springtail
s of the order
Poduromorpha
. It was established by Carl Börner in 1901.
The peculiar genus
Pseudoxenylla is of uncertain relationships and hence not assigned to a subfamily yet.
Family (biology)
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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
- NeanurinaeNeanurinaeThe 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.