Species list, Checklist of Suborder Polydesmidea for Galápagos (Ecuador)

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Checklist for Suborder Polydesmidea Leach, 1815
and region Galápagos (Ecuador)

Class	Diplopoda De Blainville in Gervais, 1844 Diplopods, Millepedes, Millipede, Millipedes	18 28 55	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Chilognatha Latreille, 1802	17 27 54	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Helminthomorpha Pocock, 1887	16 26 53	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Merocheta Cook, 1895	8 12 14	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Polydesmida Pocock, 1887 Flat-backed Millipedes	8 12 14	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Polydesmidea Leach, 1815	4 6 7	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Galápagos
4 Families width 7 Species

Fuhrmannodesmidae Brölemann, 1916	3	Species	Taxom
Haplodesmidae Cook, 1895	2	Species	Taxom
Cyrtodesmidae Cook, 1896	1	Species	Taxom
Pyrgodesmidae Silvestri, 1896	1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Galápagos
6 Genera with 7 Species

Species list for Galápagos
7 Species

Agenodesmus nullus Shear & Peck, 1987
Cylindrodesmus hirsutus Pocock, 1889
Cyrtodesmus baerti Shear & Peck, 2018
Hexadesmus lateridens Loomis, 1933
Hexadesmus latridens Shear & Peck, 1987
Nesodesmus insulanus Chamberlin, 1914
Prosopodesmus jacobsoni Silvestri, 1910	Millipede

Subnodes of Polydesmidea with occurrences in Galápagos

Infraorder	Oniscodesmoides Simonsen, 1990	1 1 1	Family Genus Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Polydesmoides Pocock, 1887	1 2 2	Family Genera Species	Taxom
Family	Cyrtodesmidae Cook, 1896	1 1	Genus Species	Taxom
Family	Fuhrmannodesmidae Brölemann, 1916	2 3	Genera Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Polydesmidea at artfakta.se
Polydesmidea at itis.gov