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Ctenolepisma longicaudata (long tailed silverfish), Mook, the Netherlands🪲

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SpeciesZygentomaLepismatidae
Arthropods

🪲Ctenolepisma longicaudatum

Ctenolepisma longicaudatum Escherich, 1905

Ctenolepisma longicaudatum, generally known as the gray silverfish, long-tailed silverfish or paper silverfish, is a species of Zygentoma in the family Lepismatidae. It was described by the German entomologist Karl Leopold Escherich in 1905 based on specimens collected in South Africa, but is found worldwide as synanthrope in human housings.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classInsecta
  4. ›orderZygentoma
  5. ›familyLepismatidae
  6. ›genusCtenolepisma
  7. ›speciesCtenolepisma longicaudatum
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  1. classInsects · Insecta
  2. orderZygentoma
  3. familyLepismatidae
  4. genusCtenolepisma
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. subphylumHexapoda
  4. classInsects · Insecta
  5. orderZygentoma
  6. familyLepismatidae
  7. genusCtenolepisma
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skjeggkre (nb), 좀벌레 (ko), paperitoukka (fi), 灰衣魚 (zh), Ctenolepisma longicaudatum (nl), långsprötad silverfisk (sv) … and 12 more languages
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Ctenolepisma longicaudata (long tailed silverfish), Mook, the NetherlandsCtenolepisma longicaudata (7596721750)Ctenolepisma longicaudata (Family Lepismatidae) I
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