Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 External morphology and functional anatomy
- 3 The integument, moulting and regeneration
- 4 The musculature and endoskeleton
- 5 The nervous system and sense organs
- 6 Sensory responses and related behaviour
- 7 Endocrinology
- 8 The alimentary canal
- 9 The poison glands
- 10 Feeding and digestion
- 11 The respiratory system
- 12 The circulatory system
- 13 Pigments
- 14 Connective tissue and fat body
- 15 Head glands
- 16 The Malpighian tubules and nephridia
- 17 The reproductive system and reproduction
- 18 Post-embryonic development and life history
- 19 Epidermal glands and their function, defence and predators
- 20 Parasites
- 21 Physiology and ecology
- 22 Taxonomy
- 23 Relationships of the chilopod orders
- 24 The classification of the Chilopoda
- Bibliography
- Index
24 - The classification of the Chilopoda
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 External morphology and functional anatomy
- 3 The integument, moulting and regeneration
- 4 The musculature and endoskeleton
- 5 The nervous system and sense organs
- 6 Sensory responses and related behaviour
- 7 Endocrinology
- 8 The alimentary canal
- 9 The poison glands
- 10 Feeding and digestion
- 11 The respiratory system
- 12 The circulatory system
- 13 Pigments
- 14 Connective tissue and fat body
- 15 Head glands
- 16 The Malpighian tubules and nephridia
- 17 The reproductive system and reproduction
- 18 Post-embryonic development and life history
- 19 Epidermal glands and their function, defence and predators
- 20 Parasites
- 21 Physiology and ecology
- 22 Taxonomy
- 23 Relationships of the chilopod orders
- 24 The classification of the Chilopoda
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Opinions differ as to the correct classification of the Chilopoda. A simple classification is given here to show the family and order to which the genera mentioned in the text belong. All families are listed but not all subfamilies.
Subclass Epimorpha
Order Geophilomorpha (about 1000 species)
The classification of the Geophilomorpha given here is based on that of Attems (1929) with modifications based on Crabill (1960c, 1970). Attems distinguished ten families, namely the Himantariidae, Schendylidae, Oryidae, Mecistocephalidae, Geophilidae, Soniphilidae, Gonibregmatide, Sogonidae, Neogeophilidae and Azgethidae. Within the Geophilidae he distinguished the subfamilies Geophilinae, Dignathodontinae, Pachymerinae, Chilenophilinae and Aphilodontinae. Crabill (1960c) showed that Azygethus atopus Chamberlin for which the family Azygethidae was created is Orphnaeus brevilabiatus and thus the Azygethidae is a junior synonym of Oryidae. Crabill (1970) added a new family, the Eriphantidae and proposed several changes in the classification which are adopted here. The data on distribution are largely from Attems (1929).
Family Himantariidae
Himantarium (Mediterranean region, Madagascar), Stigmatogaster, Haplophilus (Europe, N Africa), Meinertophilus (Mediterranean region), Mesocanthus (Africa, India), Nesoporogaster (southern France, Balearic Islands), Nothobius (California).
Family Schendylidae
Schendyla (Europe, N Africa) (Crabill regards S. nemorensis as cosmopolitan), Hydroschendyla (Europe, Bermuda), Haploschendyla (Mediterranean region), Pectiniunguis (N and S America), Thalthybius (Brazil, Seychelles, Mariana Islands, Cuba), Lionyx (N America).
Family Oryidae
Orya (Mediterranean region, Madagascar), Orphnaeus (pantropical), Diphtherogaster (S Africa).
Family Mecistocephalidae
Mecistocephalus (pantropical), Dicellophilus (Europe, N America, Japan).
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Biology of Centipedes , pp. 425 - 428Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1981