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Silverfish
Related Category: Zoology: Invertebrates
common name for primitive, wingless insects of the family Lepismatidae. The silverfish, which has two long antennae and three long tail bristles, is named for its covering of tiny, silvery scales.
Silverfish have a pair of long antennae at the front and three long tail-like structures at the rear. They prefer cool, moist, dark areas and have a transparent, glistening, silvery appearance.
Antarctic silverfish, Pleuragramma antarcticum
Genus Trematomus
Trematomus bernacchii
Trematomus eulepidotus
Trematomus hansoni
Trematomus lepidorhinus
Trematomus loennbergii
Trematomus newnesi
Trematomus nicolai
Trematomus pennellii ...
Silverfish
Silverside, Argentina australiae Cohen, 1958
Simbo - Skull shrines
Simon Rood Pittard
Single Funnel Ant nest entrance
Singular Bannerfish, Heniochus singularius (Smith & Radcliffe, 1911)
Sir John Proud Aquarium System
SITC ...
Order: Thysanura (silverfish)
Order: Ephemeroptera (mayflies)
Order: Odonata (damselflies and dragonflies)
Order: Orthoptera (crickets and grasshoppers)
Order: Plecoptera (stoneflies) ...
The silverfish, bristletails, firebrats
Thysanurans undergo ametabolous metamorphosis, passing through egg, young and adult stages. Each new immature stage resembles the previous one in body form, only that it is larger.
They even belong to a subclass of the insects, along with among others the Silverfish and Coneheads: the Apterygota (=wingless). Within this group not even the adults ever have wings.
Like their neighbors, the emperor penguins, they feed on small fish such as Antarctic silverfish and krill, particularly crystal krill, Euphausia chrystallorophias, and Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba.
They have been known to blow air into cracks in the ice. The surprise tactic puts small fish to flight, which the seal then devours. Cod and silverfish are favorites, though these seals also eat small crustaceans, octopuses, ...
The Thysanura are recognizable by their elongate feelers and tail-processes (cerci). Campodea Machilis and Lepisma - to which belongs the "silverfish" (q.v.) - are the best known genera. (See also HEXAPODA and APTEPA.) ...
Gambel's quail, poorwill, roadrunner, desert gecko, desert iguana, desert spiny lizard, western whiptail, gopher snake, coachwhip, night snake, Mojave rattlesnake, sidewinder, western rattlesnake, antlion larvae, ground beetles, roaches, silverfish, ...
and then choose only those animals that are most likely to provide information about their ancestors. Such animals include horseshoe crabs (or king crabs), scorpions, velvet worms, leptostracan 'shrimps' and wingless insects, such as silverfish.
 See also: Spider, Diver, Lacewing, Nymph, Pupa
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