Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Allotriocarida

Hexapoda

Rank: Subphylum
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Subphylum group names

*Entognatha*		taxonomically included in
*Insecta*		taxonomically included in

Children

Entognatha
Insecta

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: zespotigen

French: hexapodes

German: Sechsfüßer

Japanese: 六脚亜門 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: insekter

Literature

basis of record	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
taxonomy source	Thorp, J. H.; Rogers, D. C. (2019). Keys to Palearctic Fauna. Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates. Volume IV. Academic Press, 920 pp.
ecology source	Cheng, L. (Ed.). (1976). Marine insects. North-Holland Publishing Company: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 0-444-11213-8. XII, 581 pp.

Genbank

Citation

Kathirithamby, J. (2025). World Strepsiptera Database. Hexapoda. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1278

Taxonomic Coordinator. Hexapoda. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/d802e52c-69f0-4ee9-95e1-bf387cf29811