The PEDIGREE of
Class Chilopoda (Centipedes)

 
     ('Children' listed in order of cladistic closeness to Scolopendromorpha, with clade names Epimorpha, Phylactometria, Pleurostigmophora as, resp., Geophilomorpha, Craterostigmomorpha, Lithobiomorpha are included with Scolopendromorpha)

 "Child(ren)":       Order Scolopendromorpha   ;   Geophilomorpha   ;   Craterostigmomorpha   ;   Lithobiomorpha (stone centipede etc.)   ;   Scutigeromorpha (house centipedes etc.)   ;   8000 species altogether
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/-- Superempire Unikonta   +====> [ 56]
/   / OR: Kingdom Opisthokonta   +====> [ 56]
/-- Empire of Opisthokonts (Fungi & Animals)
/   / OR: Opisthokonts [Cavalier-Smith model]   +====> [ 67]
/-- Superkingdom Holozoa
/-- Kingdom of Apoikozoa (Animals)
/-- Subkingdom of Metazoa (Multicellular Animals)
/-- Superbranch Eumetazoa
/-- Superphylum Planulozoa
/-- Clade of Bilateria and Placozoa
/   / (skip this generation?)
/-- Branch Bilateria
/-- Infrakingdom (Grade) of Coelomates  (570 M BC)
/   / (skip this generation?)
/-- Subgrade of Protostomia
/   / or: Clade Nephrozoa
/-- Superphylum Ecdysozoa (Arthropods, Roundworms, etc.)
/-- Supraphylum Panarthropoda
/-- Phylum Arthropoda
/-- Subphylum Myriapoda (Millipedes & Centipedes)
/  
- Class Chilopoda (Centipedes)
 

 
  ``2-Great Grandchild:''       Amazonian Giant Centipede
 

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