Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Myriapoda

Diplopoda de Blainville in Gervais, 1844

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Chilognatha Latreille, 1802/1803
Penicillata Latreille, 1831

Literature

original description	Gervais, P. (1844). Études sur les Myriapodes. Annales des Sciences naturelles, série 3, 2: 51-80
basis of record	Barber, A. D. (2009). Littoral myriapods. a review. Soil Organisms. 81(3): 735-760.
additional source	Shelley, R. M.; Sierwald, P.; Kiser, S. B.; Golovatch, S. I. (2000). Nomenclator generum et familiarum Diplopodorum II. 1-167. Sofia
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Jeekel, C. A. W. (1971). Nomenclator generum et familiarum Diplopodorum: A list of the genus and family-group names in the Class Diplopoda from the 10th edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 1957. Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging, 5: 1-412. Amsterdam
additional source	Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.
additional source	Roth, V.D. & Brown, W.L. (1976) Other air-breathing arthropods in Cheng, L. Marine Insects. North-Holland Publishing, Amsterdam-Oxford, American Elsevier, New York.
additional source	Shelley, R. M. (2003). A revised, annotated, family-level classification of the Diplopoda. Arthropoda Selecta, 11(3): 187-207. Moscow
taxonomy source	Shear, W. (2011). Class Diplopoda de Blainville in Gervais, 1844. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa. 3148(1): 159-164.

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Diplopoda. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1305

Prof. Dr. Henrik Enghoff. Diplopoda de Blainville in Gervais, 1844. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/bd574be3-f072-4ca2-a781-34a0818e54d9

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Environment

not marine, terrestrial

Importance

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urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1305
urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:11498

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2020-07-03 by Prof. Dr. Henrik Enghoff & by Desmond Kime, Richard Enghoff, Henrik & by Petra Sierwald

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