Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Myriapoda > Class Diplopoda > Subclass Chilognatha

Helminthomorpha Pocock, 1887

Rank: Infraclass
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Eugnatha Attems, 1898

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ヤスデ亜綱

Literature

original description	Pocock, R. I. (1887). On the classification of the Diplopoda. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 5, 20: 283-295
additional source	Enghoff, H. (1984). Phylogeny of millipedes - a cladistic analysis. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung. 22(1): 8-26.
additional source	Blanke, A.; Wesener, T. (2014). Revival of forgotten characters and modern imaging techniques help to produce a robust phylogeny of the Diplopoda (Arthropoda, Myriapoda). Arthropod Structure & Development. 43(1): 63-75.
additional source	Sierwald, P.; Shear, W. A.; Shelley, R. M.; Bond, J. E. (2003). Millipede phylogeny revisited in the light of the enigmatic order Siphoniulida. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 41: 87-99. Oxford