The PEDIGREE of
Class Chilopoda (Centipedes)

     ('Children' listed in order of cladistic closeness to Scolopendromorpha)

 "Child(ren)":       Order Scolopendromorpha   ;   Geophilomorpha   ;   Craterostigmomorpha   ;   Lithobiomorpha (stone centipede etc.)   ;   Scutigeromorpha (house centipedes etc.)   ;   8000 species altogether
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/-- Domain of Eukaryotes   +====> [ 52]
/-- Superempire Unikonta
/-- Empire of Opisthokonts (Fungi & Animals)
/-- Superkingdom Holozoa
/-- Kingdom of Animals
/-- Subkingdom of Metazoa (Multicellular Animals)
/-- Superbranch Eumetazoa
/-- Superphylum Planulozoa
/-- Branch Bilateria
/-- Infrakingdom (Grade) of Coelomates  (570 M BC)
/   | (skip this generation?)
/-- Subgrade of Protostomia
/   | or: Clade Nephrozoa
/-- Superphylum Ecdysozoa
/-- Supraphylum Panarthropoda
/-- Phylum Arthropoda
/-- Subphylum Myriapoda (Millipedes & Centipedes)
/  
- Class Chilopoda (Centipedes)
 

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

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