The field of myriapodology can also cover other myriapods such as pauropods and symphylans. Those who study myriapods are myriapodologists.
Societies
- International Society of Myriapodology
Journals
- International Journal of Myriapodology
- Myriapodologica
- Myriapod Memoranda
Notable myriapodologists
- Carl Attems (1868–1952), Austrian zoologist, described over 1,000 species
- Stanley Graham Brade-Birks (1887-1982), English myriapodologist who with Hilda K Brade-Birks authored Notes on Myriapoda: 23 papers jointly from 1916 to the 1920s; then twelve more solo until 1939
- Henry W. Brolemann (1860–1933), French myriapodologist, described around 500 species
- Ralph Vary Chamberlin (1879–1967), American arachnologist and myriapodologist, described over 1,000 species
- Orator F. Cook (1867–1949), American botanist and myriapodologist, co-described world's leggiest species, Illacme plenipes
- Richard L. Hoffman (1927–2012), American entomologist, described over 600 myriapod taxa
- C. A. W. Jeekel (1922–2010), Dutch entomologist, produced the Nomenclator Generum et Familiarum Diplopodorum which pioneered modern millipede taxonomy
- Otto Kraus (1930–2017), German myriapodologist and arachnologist, described nearly 500 species
- Robert Latzel (1845–1919), Austrian myriapodologist, pioneered use of gonopods in taxonomy
- Harold F. Loomis (1896–1976) American botanist and myriapodologist, described over 300 species
- Paola Manfredi (1889–1989) Italian myriapodologist
- Yu-Hsi Wang Moltze (1910–1968), Chinese myriapodologist
- Filippo Silvestri (1873–1949), Italian entomologist, described over 600 species
- Ödön Tömösváry (1852–1884), Hungarian naturalist, namesake of organ of Tömösváry
- Karl Wilhelm Verhoeff (1867–1944), German entomologist, described over 1,000 myriapod species
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