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Silverfish - Zygentoma (formerly Thysanura)
"Thysan-ura" means "bristle-tails".
They have three appendages, two tails (cerci) and between them, a median caudal filament. They are very small, primitive, and very fast moving. Decomposers, they feed on detritus.
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