Myriapodology

Myriapodology is the scientific study of myriapods which includes centipedes and millipedes. The field of myriapodology can also cover other myriapods such as pauropods and symphylans. Those who study myriapods are myriapodologists.^[1]

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Myriapods
Classes
Centipedes • Millipedes • Symphylans • Pauropods
Anatomy
Organ of Tömösváry • Ozopore • Ultimate legs Cyphopods • Forcipules • Millipede gonopods
Notable species
Eumillipes persephone • Eopauropus balticus • Scolopendra gigantea • Scutigerella immaculata
Interactions with humans
Centipede bite Millipede burn
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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
• Stanley Graham Brade-Birks (1887-1982), English myriapodologist who with Hilda K Brade-Birks authored Notes on Myriapoda: 23 papers jointly from 1916 to the 1920s; then twelve more solo until 1939^[2]
• Henry W. Brolemann (1860–1933), French myriapodologist, described around 500 species
• Ralph Vary Chamberlin (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
• Richard L. Hoffman (1927–2012), American entomologist, described over 600 myriapod taxa
• C. A. W. Jeekel (1922–2010), Dutch entomologist, produced the Nomenclator Generum et Familiarum Diplopodorum which pioneered modern millipede taxonomy
• Otto Kraus (1930–2017), German myriapodologist and arachnologist, described nearly 500 species
• Robert Latzel (1845–1919), Austrian myriapodologist, pioneered use of gonopods in taxonomy
• Harold F. Loomis (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 (1873–1949), Italian entomologist, described over 600 species
• Ödön Tömösváry (1852–1884), Hungarian naturalist, namesake of organ of Tömösváry
• Karl Wilhelm Verhoeff (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