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Geophilidae  Leach, 1815
Taxonomic Serial No.: 553111

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Family  
  Synonym(s): Aphilodontidae Silvestri, 1909
  
    Dignathodontidae Cook, 1896
  
    Linotaeniidae Cook, 1899
  
    Macronicophilidae Verhoeff, 1925
  
  Common Name(s):    
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2019   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumMyriapoda  – miriápode, myriapods  
                   ClassChilopoda  – centipedes, centopéia, quilópode, centipeds  
                      SubclassPleurostigmophora Pocock, 1902  
                         OrderGeophilomorpha   
                            SuborderAdesmata   
                               SuperfamilyGeophiloidea Leach, 1815  
                                  FamilyGeophilidae Leach, 1815  
    Direct Children:  
                                     SpeciesStrigamia tropica Wood, 1862  
                                     GenusAbatorus Chamberlin, 1965  
                                     GenusAcanthogeophilus Minelli, 1982  
                                     GenusAchilophilus Attems, 1926  
                                     GenusAgathothus Bollman, 1893  
                                     GenusAgnathodon Folkmanová and Dobroruka, 1960  
                                     GenusAlgerophilus Brölemann, 1925  
                                     GenusAlloschizotaenia Brölemann, 1909  
                                     GenusAphilodon Silvestri, 1898  
                                     GenusApogeophilus Silvestri, 1905  
                                     GenusAraucania Chamberlin, 1956  
                                     GenusArctogeophilus Attems, 1909  
                                     GenusArenophilus Chamberlin, 1912  
                                     GenusAztekophilus Verhoeff, 1934  
                                     GenusBarrophilus Chamberlin, 1940  
                                     GenusBebekium Verhoeff, 1941  
                                     GenusBithyniphilus Verhoeff, 1941  
                                     GenusBrachygeophilus Brölemann, 1909  
                                     GenusBrachygonarea Ribaut, 1911  
                                     GenusCaliphilus Chamberlin, 1941  
                                     GenusCephalodolichus Verhoeff, 1938  
                                     GenusCheiletha Chamberlin, 1946  
                                     GenusChilenophilus Attems, 1909  
                                     GenusChomatophilus Pocock, 1896  
                                     GenusClinopodes C. L. Koch, 1847  
                                     GenusCondylona Chamberlin, 1941  
                                     GenusDamothus Chamberlin, 1960  
                                     GenusDekanphilus Verhoeff, 1938  
                                     GenusDignathodon Meinert, 1870  
                                     GenusDiphyonyx Bonato, Zapparoli and Minelli, 2008  
                                     GenusDyodesmophilus Verhoeff, 1938  
                                     GenusDysmesus Chamberlin, 1944  
                                     GenusEcuadoron Chamberlin, 1956  
                                     GenusEndogeophilus Bonato, Zapparoli, Drago and Minelli, 2016  
                                     GenusEremerium Chamberlin, 1941  
                                     GenusEremorus Chamberlin, 1963  
                                     GenusErithophilus Cook, 1899  
                                     GenusEurygeophilus Verhoeff, 1899  
                                     GenusFagetophilus Folkmanová, 1956  
                                     GenusFilipponus Chamberlin, 1962  
                                     GenusGalliophilus Ribaut and Brolemann, 1927  
                                     GenusGarrina Chamberlin, 1915  
                                     GenusGeomerinus Brölemann, 1912  
                                     GenusGeoperingueyia Attems, 1926  
                                     GenusGeophilus Leach, 1814  
                                     GenusGnathoribautia Brölemann, 1909  
                                     GenusGosipina Chamberlin, 1940  
                                     GenusHapleurytion Verhoeff, 1940  
                                     GenusHarmostela Chamberlin, 1941  
                                     GenusHarpacticellus Verhoeff, 1941  
                                     GenusHenia C. L. Koch, 1847  
                                     GenusHoronia Chamberlin, 1966  
                                     GenusHovanyx Lawrence, 1960  
                                     GenusHyphydrophilus Pereira, Minelli and Barbieri, 1994  
                                     GenusKetampa Chamberlin, 1956  
                                     GenusKurdistanius Verhoeff, 1941  
                                     GenusLionyx Chamberlin, 1960  
                                     GenusMacronicophilus Silvestri, 1909  
                                     GenusMaoriella Attems, 1903  
                                     GenusMecistauchenus Brölemann, 1907  
                                     GenusMecophilus Silvestri, 1909  
                                     GenusMixophilus Silvestri, 1929  
                                     GenusNabocodes Chamberlin, 1940  
                                     GenusNannocrix Chamberlin, 1918  
                                     GenusNavajona Chamberlin, 1930  
                                     GenusNesidiphilus Chamberlin, 1915  
                                     GenusNesomerium Chamberlin, 1953  
                                     GenusNicopus Attems, 1947  
                                     GenusNothogeophilus Lewis, Jones and Keay, 1988  
                                     GenusOligna Chamberlin, 1943  
                                     GenusOrinomerium Chamberlin, 1956  
                                     GenusOrtognathus Folkmanová, 1958  
                                     GenusPachymerellus Chamberlin, 1920  
                                     GenusPachymerinus Silvestri, 1905  
                                     GenusPachymerium C. L. Koch, 1847  
                                     GenusPagotaenia Chamberlin, 1915  
                                     GenusPandineum Chamberlin, 1956  
                                     GenusPeruphilus Chamberlin, 1944  
                                     GenusPhilacroterium Attems, 1926  
                                     GenusPiestophilus Cook, 1895  
                                     GenusPlateurytion Attems, 1909  
                                     GenusPleurogeophilus Verhoeff, 1901  
                                     GenusPoaphilus Chamberlin, 1912  
                                     GenusPolycricus Saussure and Humbert, 1872  
                                     GenusPolygonarea Attems, 1909  
                                     GenusPorethus Chamberlin, 1952  
                                     GenusPortoricellus Chamberlin, 1950  
                                     GenusPortoricona Chamberlin, 1950  
                                     GenusProschizotaenia Silvestri, 1907  
                                     GenusPseudofagetophilus Folkmanová and Dobroruka, 1960  
                                     GenusPurcellinus Attems, 1926  
                                     GenusPycnona Chamberlin, 1943  
                                     GenusQueenslandophilus Verhoeff, 1925  
                                     GenusRibautia Brölemann, 1909  
                                     GenusSchendyloides Attems, 1897  
                                     GenusSchizonampa Chamberlin, 1914  
                                     GenusSchizonium Chamberlin, 1956  
                                     GenusSchizopleres Folkmanová, 1956  
                                     GenusSchizotaenia Cook, 1896  
                                     GenusSepedonophilus Attems, 1909  
                                     GenusSerrona Chamberlin, 1941  
                                     GenusSogona Chamberlin, 1912  
                                     GenusSteneurytion Attems, 1909  
                                     GenusStenotaenia C. L. Koch, 1847  
                                     GenusStrigamia Gray, 1843  
                                     GenusStylolaemus Karsch, 1881  
                                     GenusSundageophilus Bonato, Klarner, Widyastuti and Scheu, 2016  
                                     GenusSynerium Chamberlin, 1956  
                                     GenusSynthophilus Chamberlin, 1946  
                                     GenusTaiyuna Chamberlin, 1912  
                                     GenusTaschkentia Verhoeff, 1930  
                                     GenusTelocricus Chamberlin, 1915  
                                     GenusTimpina Chamberlin, 1912  
                                     GenusTretechthus Cook, 1896  
                                     GenusTuoba Chamberlin, 1920  
                                     GenusTylonyx Cook, 1899  
                                     GenusWatophilus Chamberlin, 1912  
                                     GenusZantaenia Chamberlin, 1960  
                                     GenusZygona Chamberlin, 1960  
                                     GenusZygophilus Chamberlin, 1952  
       
                                   FamilyGeophilidae Leach, 1815 incertae sedis  
    Children with Uncertain Position:  
                                     GenusJavaenia Chamberlin, 1944  
                                     GenusMalochora Chamberlin, 1941  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Rowland M. Shelley   
  Notes: Curator of Terrestrial Invertebrates, North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, P. O. Box 29555, Raleigh, NC 27626-0555 USA   
  Reference for: Geophilidae    
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: ChiloBase 2.0 - A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda), database (version 2016)  
  Acquired: 2018   
  Notes: Bonato, L., A. Chagas Junior, G. D. Edgecombe, J. G. E. Lewis, A. Minelli,L. A. Pereira, R. M. Shelley, P. Stoev, and M. Zapparoli. (2016) Chilobase 2.0 - A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda). Available at http://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it   
  Reference for: Geophilidae   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Bonato, L., G. D. Edgecombe, and M. Zapparoli / Minelli, A., ed.   
  Publication Date: 2011   
  Article/Chapter Title: Chilopoda - Taxonomic overview   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Treatise on Zoology - The Myriapoda, vol. 1   
  Page(s): 363-443   
  Publisher: Brill   
  Publication Place: Leiden, The Netherlands   
  ISBN/ISSN:    
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Geophilidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Bonato, Lucio, Leandro Drago, and Jérome Murienne   
  Publication Date: 2014   
  Article/Chapter Title: Phylogeny of Geophilomorpha (Chilopoda) inferred from new morphological and molecular evidence   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Cladistics, vol. 30, no. 5   
  Page(s): 485-507   
  Publisher:    
  Publication Place:    
  ISBN/ISSN: 0748-3007   
  Notes: doi: 10.1111/cla.12060   
  Reference for: Geophilidae   
       

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