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Hexapoda 
Taxonomic Serial No.: 563886

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Subphylum  
  Synonym(s): Apterygota
 
  Common Name(s): hexapods [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2024   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
    Direct Children:  
                   Class Collembola  – collembolans, springtails, snow flies, puces des neiges, collemboles, colêmbolo 
                   Class Diplura  – diplurans, tesourinha 
                   Class Insecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes 
                   Class Protura   
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Richard C. Brusca  
  Notes: Adjunct Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721   
  Reference for: Hexapoda    
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: All Living Families (Ruggiero, 2019), database (version 1.0.0)  
  Acquired: 2024   
  Notes: Ruggiero, M. (2019). All Living Families (1.0.0). ITIS, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/data-all-living-families   
  Reference for: Hexapoda   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Brusca, Richard C., and Gary J. Brusca  
  Publication Date: 2002   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Invertebrates, Second Edition   
  Page(s): xx + 936   
  Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Inc.   
  Publication Place: Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-87893-097-3   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Hexapoda   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Brusca, Richard C., Gonzalo Giribet, and Wendy Moore  
  Publication Date: 2022   
  Article/Chapter Title: Chapter 22: Phylum Arthropoda: Subphylum Hexapoda: Insects and Their Kin   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Invertebrates, Fourth Edition   
  Page(s): 735-783   
  Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Oxford University Press   
  Publication Place: Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 9780197554418   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Hexapoda   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Brusca, Richard C., Wendy Moore, and Stephen M. Shuster  
  Publication Date: 2016   
  Article/Chapter Title: Chapter 20: The Emergence of the Arthropods. Tardigrades, Onychophorans, and the Arthropod Body Plan   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Invertebrates, Third Edition   
  Page(s): 709-760   
  Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Inc.   
  Publication Place: Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 978-1605353753   
  Notes: Chapter revised by guest contributors Gonzalo Giribet (Onychophora), Reinhardt M. Kristensen (Tardigrada) and Richard C. Brusca (Tardigrada)   
  Reference for: Hexapoda   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Moore, Wendy, reviser, in Brusca, Richard C., Wendy Moore, and Stephen M. Schuster  
  Publication Date: 2016   
  Article/Chapter Title: Chapter 22: Phylum Arthropoda: The Hexapoda: Insects and Their Kin   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Invertebrates, Third Edition   
  Page(s): 843-893   
  Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Inc.   
  Publication Place: Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 978-1605353753   
  Notes: Chapter revised by Wendy Moore   
  Reference for: Hexapoda   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Ruggiero, M. A., D. P. Gordon, T. M. Orrell, N. Bailly, T. Bourgoin, R. C. Brusca, et al.  
  Publication Date: 2015   
  Article/Chapter Title: Correction: A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: PLoS ONE vol. 10, no. 6, e0130114   
  Page(s):    
  Publisher:    
  Publication Place:    
  ISBN/ISSN: 1932-6203   
  Notes: Available online at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0130114#sec001 ; Full authorship: Ruggiero, M. A., D. P. Gordon, T. M. Orrell, N. Bailly, T. Bourgoin, R. C. Brusca, T. Cavalier-Smith, M. D. Guiry, and P. M. Kirk   
  Reference for: Hexapoda   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: From a phylogenetic perspective, Hexapoda might be best placed within Altocrustacea, but the ranks currently used for those groups prevent it  
 

 

    

 
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