Myriapodology

Myriapodology is the scientific study of

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Myriapods
Classes
Pauropods
Anatomy
Millipede gonopods
Notable species
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
• naturalist, namesake of organ of Tömösváry
• Karl Wilhelm Verhoeff (1867–1944), German entomologist, described over 1,000 myriapod species

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