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]

Societies[edit]

International Society of Myriapodology

Journals[edit]

International Journal of Myriapodology
Myriapodologica
Myriapod Memoranda

Notable myriapodologists[edit]

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[edit]

^ Sue Hubbell (2000). Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys Into the Time Before Bones. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-618-05684-2.
^ Stanley Graham Brade-Birks (1887-1982

External links[edit]

[1] Sue Hubbell (2000). Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys Into the Time Before Bones. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-618-05684-2.

[SGBBrade_Birks-2] Stanley Graham Brade-Birks (1887-1982

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