Monura

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Apterygota
Ordo: †Monura
Name
Monura

Monura is an extinct suborder of wingless insects in the order Archaeognatha. They resembled their modern relatives, the silverfish, and had a single lengthy filament projecting from the end of the abdomen. They also had a pair of leg-like cerci and some non-ambulatory abdominal appendages. The largest specimens reached 30 millimetres (1.2 in) or more, not counting the length of the filament.[1]
Taxonomy

Suborder Monura Sharov 1957 stat. nov. Carpenter 1992[2]
Family Dasyleptidae Sharov 1957
Genus †Tonganoxichnus Mángano et al. 1997 (ichnotaxa)
Genus †Dasyleptus Brongniart 1885

References

Hoell, H.V.; Doyen, J.T. & Purcell, A.H. (1998). Introduction to Insect Biology and Diversity (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 321. ISBN 0-19-510033-6.
"Suborder †Monura Sharov 1957". The Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 26 November 2020.