Myriapodology is the scientific study of

myriapod Myriapods () are the members of subphylum Myriapoda, containing arthropods such as millipedes and centipedes. The group contains about 13,000 species, all of them terrestrial. The fossil record of myriapods reaches back into the late Silurian, a ...

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centipede Centipedes (from New Latin , "hundred", and Latin , " foot") are predatory arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda (Ancient Greek , ''kheilos'', lip, and New Latin suffix , "foot", describing the forcipules) of the subphylum Myriapoda, an ...

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millipede Millipedes are a group of arthropods that are characterised by having two pairs of jointed legs on most body segments; they are known scientifically as the class Diplopoda, the name derived from this feature. Each double-legged segment is a resu ...

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pauropod Pauropods are small, pale, millipede-like arthropods. Around 830 species in twelve families are found worldwide, living in soil and leaf mold. They look rather like centipedes, or millipedes, and may be a sister group of the latter. However, this ...

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symphylan Symphylans, also known as garden centipedes or pseudocentipedes, are soil-dwelling arthropods of the class Symphyla in the subphylum Myriapoda. Symphylans resemble centipedes, but are very small, non-venomous, and only distantly related to bo ...

s. Those who study myriapods are myriapodologists.

Societies

* International Society of Myriapodology

Journals

* ''International Journal of Myriapodology'' * ''Myriapodologica'' * ''Myriapod Memoranda''

Notable myriapodologists

* Carl Attems (1868–1952), Austrian zoologist, described over 1,000 species *

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Henry W. Brolemann Henry Wilfred Brolemann (10 July 1860 – 31 July 1933) was a French myriapodologist and former president of the Société entomologique de France known for major works on centipedes and millipedes, of which he named some 500 species. Broleman ...

(1860–1933), French myriapodologist, described around 500 species *

Ralph Vary Chamberlin Ralph Vary Chamberlin (January 3, 1879October 31, 1967) was an American biologist, ethnographer, and historian from Salt Lake City, Utah. He was a faculty member of the University of Utah for over 25 years, where he helped establish the School of ...

(1879–1967), American arachnologist and myriapodologist, described over 1,000 species * Orator F. Cook (1867–1949), American botanist and myriapodologist, co-described world's leggiest species, ''

Illacme plenipes ''Illacme plenipes'' is a siphonorhinid millipede found in the central region of the U.S. state of California. It has up to 750 legs. One of two known species in the genus ''Illacme'', it was first seen in 1926, but was not rediscovered until ...

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Richard L. Hoffman Richard Lawrence Hoffman (September 25, 1927 – June 10, 2012) was an American zoologist known as an international expert on millipedes, and a leading authority on the natural history of Virginia and the Appalachian Mountains. He was a biology ...

(1927–2012), American entomologist, described over 600 myriapod taxa *

C. A. W. Jeekel Casimir Albrecht Willem Jeekel (1922–2010) was a Dutch people, Dutch myriapodologist and entomologist known for his major contributions to the Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy of millipedes. His 1971 monograph ''Nomenclator Generum et Familiarum Di ...

(1922–2010), Dutch entomologist, produced the ''Nomenclator Generum et Familiarum Diplopodorum'' which pioneered modern millipede taxonomy *

Otto Kraus Otto Kraus (17 May 1930 – 24 October 2017) was a German arachnologist and myriapodologist. He was director of the Zoological Institute and Zoological Museum at the University of Hamburg from 1969 to 1995, where he also served as professor. He w ...

(1930–2017), German myriapodologist and arachnologist, described nearly 500 species *

Robert Latzel Robert Latzel (28 October 1845 – 15 December 1919) was an Austrian myriapodologist and entomologist who published a series of pioneering works on millipedes, centipedes, and allies. His collection of myriapod specimens, today housed in the N ...

(1845–1919), Austrian myriapodologist, pioneered use of

gonopod Gonopods are specialized appendages of various arthropods used in reproduction or egg-laying. In males, they facilitate the transfer of sperm from male to female during mating, and thus are a type of intromittent organ. In crustaceans and millip ...

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Harold F. Loomis Harold Frederick Loomis (December 23, 1896 – July 5, 1976) was an American botanist and myriapodologist known for his contributions to agronomy, plant pathology, and millipede taxonomy. He worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture for over ...

(1896–1976) American botanist and myriapodologist, described over 300 species * Paola Manfredi (1889–1989) Italian myriapodologist * Yu-Hsi Wang Moltze (1910–1968), Chinese myriapodologist *

Filippo Silvestri Filippo Silvestri (22 June 1873 – 10 June 1949) was an Italian entomologist. He specialised in world Protura, Thysanura, Diplura and Isoptera, but also worked on Hymenoptera, Myriapoda and Italian Diptera. He is also noted for describing an ...

(1873–1949), Italian entomologist, described over 600 species *

Ödön Tömösváry Ödön Tömösváry (''Edmund Tömösváry'', October 12, 1852 in Magyaró – August 15, 1884 in Déva) was Hungarian naturalist, myriapodologist and entomologist. In 1883 he made the seminal description of peculiar sensory organ of myriapods, ...

(1852–1884), Hungarian naturalist, namesake of

organ of Tömösváry Tömösváry organs, also known as temporal organs or postantennal organs are specialized paired sensory organs found in certain groups of myriapods (e.g. centipedes and millipedes) and hexapods (e.g. springtails), located on the head near the bas ...

Karl Wilhelm Verhoeff Karl (or Carl) Wilhelm Verhoeff (25 November 1867 – 6 December 1944) was a German myriapodology, myriapodologist and entomology, entomologist, specialising in myriapods (millipedes, centipedes, and related species) as well as woodlouse, woodlice ...

(1867–1944), German entomologist, described over 1,000 myriapod species

References

External links

International Society of Myriapodology Official site

International Journal of Myriapodology

International Society of Myriapodology and Onychophorology

British Myriapod & Isopod Group
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