Hexapoda

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classes (4): Collembola – Diplura – Insecta – Protura
Hexapoda incertae sedis: †Leverhulmia

Hexapoda Latreille, 1825

• Latreille, P.A. 1825. Familles naturelles du règne animal, exposées succinctement et dans un ordre analytique, avec l’indication de leurs genres. J.-B. Baillière, Paris, 570 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.34914 . Reference page. 

• Bitsch, C. & Bitsch, J. 2000. The phylogenetic interrelationships of the higher taxa of apterygote hexapods. Zoologica Scripta 29(2): 131–156. DOI: 10.1046/j.1463-6409.2000.00036.x . Reference page. 
• Cameron, S.L., Miller, K.B., D'Haese, C.A., Whiting, M.F., Barker, S.C. 2004. Mitochondrial genome data alone are not enough to unambiguously resolve the relationships of Entognatha, Insecta and Crustacea sensu lato (Arthropoda). Cladistics 20(6): 534–557. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2004.00040.x . Reference page. 
• Carpenter, F.M. 1992. Superclass Hexapoda. In: Kaesler, R.L. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part R, Arthropoda 4, Volumes 3 and 4. Boulder, Colorado and Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press. xxi + 655 pp. ISBN 0-8137-3019-8. DOI: 10.17161/dt.v0i0.5370 . Reference page. 
• Fayers, S.R. & Trewin, N.H. 2005. A hexapod from the early Devonian Windyfield chert, Rhynie, Scotland. Palaeontology 48(5): 1117–1130. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2005.00501.x . Reference page. 
• Foottit, R.G. & Adler, P.H. (eds.) 2009. Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-4051-5142-9. DOI: 10.1002/9781444308211 .
• Gao, Y., Bu, Y. & Luan, Y.-X. 2008. Phylogenetic relationships of basal hexapods reconstructed from nearly complete 18S and 28S rRNA gene sequences. Zoological Science 25(11): 1139–1145. DOI: 10.2108/zsj.25.1139 . PDF. Reference page. 
• Grimaldi, D. & Engel, M.S. 2005. Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge University Press, New York, USA. ISBN 978-0-521-82149-0. limited preview on Google Books. Reference page. 
• Kjer, K.M., Carle, F.L., Litman, J. & Ware, J. 2006. A molecular phylogeny of Hexapoda. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 64(1): 35–44. DOI: 10.3897/asp.64.e31642 . Reference page. 
• Kluge, N.J. 2010. Circumscriptional names of higher taxa in Hexapoda. Bionomina 1: 15–55. Preview (PDF). PDF. Reference page. 
• Luan, Y.-x., Mallatt, J.M., Xie, R.-d., Yang, Y.-m. & Yin, W.-y. 2005. The phylogenetic positions of three basal-hexapod groups (Protura, Diplura, and Collembola) based on ribosomal RNA gene sequences. Molecular Biology and Evolution 22(7): 1579–1592. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi148 . Reference page. 
• Wheeler, W.C., Whiting, M., Wheeler, Q.D. & Carpenter, J.M. 2001. The phylogeny of the extant hexapod orders. Cladistics 17(2): 113–169. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2001.tb00115.x . Reference page. 

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