Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Myriapoda > Class Chilopoda

Geophilomorpha

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Adesmata
Himantariidae
Mecistocephalidae
Oryidae

English: "Earth centipedes", "Wire centipedes"; earth centipedes; wire centipedes

Swedish: jordkrypare

basis of record	Barber, A.D. (2009b) Littoral myriapods; a review. Soil Organisms 81(3):735-760
additional source	Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.
additional source	Minelli, A. (2001). Chilopoda and Diplopoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 323

WoRMS (2014). Geophilomorpha. In: Barber, A.D. (2014) World database of littoral Myriapoda. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105472

& Foddai, Mrs Donnatella Minelli, Prof. dr Alessandro. Geophilomorpha. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=11612