proturan


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Related to proturan: Diplura, Springtails
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Noun1.proturan - any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head; inhabit damp soil or decaying organic matter
telsontail
insect - small air-breathing arthropod
order Protura, Protura - minute wingless arthropods: telsontails
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Frouz for collection of proturan material in the Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge, Indiana, USA, and to E.
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