Geophilidae

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Noun1.Geophilidae - small extremely elongate centipedes that live in earth
arthropod family - any of the arthropods
Geophilomorpha, order Geophilomorpha - small elongate centipedes living in soil and under stones and having more than 30 pairs of legs
genus Geophilus, Geophilus - type genus of the Geophilidae: a cosmopolitan genus of centipedes sometimes called earwigs
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Por su parte, la presencia de antenas cortas y comprimidas en los representantes de las familias Oryidae e Himantariidae se tomo como caracteristica para separarlos de las familias Mecistocephalidae, Schendylidae, Linotaeniidae y Geophilidae, cuyas antenas son largas y filiformes (Hoffman, 1982; Foddai et al.
In centipedes we distinguished three taxa: Lithobiidae, Geophilidae, and Scolioplanidae.
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