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Typified names:

Penicillata Latreille 1825

NOMEN: Penicillata Latreille 1825 [P.A. Latreille. Familles naturelles du règne animal. – Paris, J.B. Baillière, 1825: 1-570]

ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Latreille 1825): Polyxenus (= Polyxene)

JUNIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS:
= Pselaphognatha Latzel 1884
= Podochila Bollman 1893
= Schizocephala Verhoeff 1926

TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Polyxenus/fg

TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE: Pollyxenus (sensu Latreille 1802), Pollyxenites, Pollyxenidae, Pollyxenida, Polyxenidae, Polyxenida, Polyxenaria

MODERN STATUS: the valid, the oldest name of a generally accepted, holophyletic taxon.
Systematic position of Penicillata:

Diplopoda
  Penicillata
  Anguiformia