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Geophilidae

Myriapoda - Geophilomorpha - Geophilidae

Taxonomy
Geophilidae was named by Leach (1815). It is extant. Its type is Geophilus.

It was assigned to Geophilida by Hoffman (1969); to Adesmata by Edgecombe and Giribet (2007); and to Geophilomorpha by Wesener and Moritz (2018) and Riquelme and Hernández-Patricio (2018).

Subtaxa
Eogeophilus, Geophilus (type genus), Kachinophilus, Polycricus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1815Geophilidae Leach
1969Geophilidae Hoffman p. 604
2007Geophilidae Edgecombe and Giribet
2018Geophilidae Riquelme and Hernández-Patricio p. 644
2018Geophilidae Wesener and Moritz p. 1137

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
classMyriapoda()
RankNameAuthor
classChilopoda(Latreille 1817)
—Pleurostigmophora
—Phylactrometria
—EpimorphaHaase 1880
orderGeophilomorpha
—Adesmata
familyGeophilidaeLeach 1815
familyGeophilidaeLeach 1815

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Fm. Geophilidae Leach 1815
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G. †Eogeophilus Schweigert and Dietl 1997
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†Eogeophilus jurassicus Schweigert and Dietl 1997
G. Geophilus Leach 1814
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†Geophilus crassicornis Menge 1854
†Geophilus filiformis Menge 1854
G. †Kachinophilus Bonato et al. 2014
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†Kachinophilus pereirai Bonato et al. 2014
G. Polycricus Saussure and Humbert 1872
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available