IRMNG - Chilopoda

IRMNG taxon details

Chilopoda

IRMNG_ID

1272 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1272)

Classification

Authority

Latreille, 1816

Status

accepted

Rank

Class

Parent

Myriapoda

Direct children (11)

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Order Chilopoda incertae sedis
Order Craterostigmomorpha
Order Devonobiomorpha †
Order Geophilomorpha
Order Lithobiomorpha
Order Scolopendromorpha
Order Scutigeromorpha
Order Geophilida accepted as Geophilomorpha (alternative spelling)
Order Lithobiida accepted as Lithobiomorpha (alternative spelling)
Order Scolopendrida accepted as Scolopendromorpha (alternative spelling)
Order Scutigerida accepted as Scutigeromorpha (alternative spelling)

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, terrestrial

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Latreille, P.-A. (1816). La quatrième classe des animaux articulés. Les insectes. Pp: 125-653. In: Cuvier, G. (Ed.). Le Règne Animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparée, 3. Les crustacés, les arachnides et les insectes. Déterville, Paris. 653 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28833494 [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2022). Chilopoda. Accessed at: https://irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1272 on 2025-07-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-05-31 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

2017-04-07 22:26:17Z

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Rees, Tony

2019-09-04 19:32:48Z

changed

Rees, Tony

2022-11-02 11:01:05Z

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Martínez-Muñoz, Carlos Alberto

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Sources (6)
Links (1)

original description Latreille, P.-A. (1816). La quatrième classe des animaux articulés. Les insectes. Pp: 125-653. In: Cuvier, G. (Ed.). Le Règne Animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparée, 3. Les crustacés, les arachnides et les insectes. Déterville, Paris. 653 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28833494 [details]

basis of record Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. [details]

additional source Minelli, A. (2011). Class Chilopoda, Class Symphyla and Class Pauropoda. Pp. 157-158 in Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa. 3148. [details]

current name source Ruggiero, M. A.; Gordon, D. P.; Orrell, T. M.; Bailly, N.; Bourgoin, T.; Brusca, R. C.; Cavalier-Smith, T.; Guiry, M. D.; Kirk, P. M. (2015). A higher level classification of all living organisms. PLOS ONE. 10(4): e0119248., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119248 [details]

extant flag source Edgecombe, G. D. (2011). Chilopoda - fossil history. Pp. 355-361 in Minelli, A. (ed.): Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda. Brill, Leiden & Boston, 2 vols. [details]

habitat flag source Edgecombe, G. D. (2011). Chilopoda - fossil history. Pp. 355-361 in Minelli, A. (ed.): Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda. Brill, Leiden & Boston, 2 vols. [details]

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