ChiloBase 2.0

Recommended citation:
Bonato L., Chagas Junior A.,
Edgecombe G.D. Lewis J.G.E.,
Minelli A., Pereira L.A.,
Shelley R.M., Stoev P.,
Zapparoli M. (2016)
ChiloBase 2.0 - A World Catalogue
of Centipedes (Chilopoda).
Available at https://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it.

The valid name for Soniphilus Chamberlin, 1912 is Geophilus Leach, 1814

Soniphilus Chamberlin, 1912

Original description: Chamberlin R.V. (1912). Notes on Geophiloidea from Iowa and some neighbouring states - Canadian Entomologist , 44: 65-72, see p. 68.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Geophilidae

Original rank: genus

Type species: Soniphilus embius Chamberlin, 1912 - by original designation

Synonymy: Brolemann H.W. (1930). Éléments d'une faune des myriapodes de France. Chilopodes - Imprimérie Toulousaine, Toulouse, XIX+405 pp., see p. 153.