Millipedes (Diplopoda) and centipedes (Chilopoda) (Myriapoda) as predators of terrestrial gastropods.

Abstract

This chapter describes the millipedes and centipedes (which includes the orders: Scutigeromorpha, Lithobiomorpha, Craterostigmomorpha, Scolopendromorpha and Geophilomorpha), and discusses their taxonomy, ecology, feeding and occurrence of malacophagy.