page_title: List of millipede families
section_title: Polyzoniida
hierarchical_section_title: List of millipede families / Polyzoniida
caption_attribution_description: Found under decomposing log on N-facing slope, in coniferous forest. I'm not 100% confident with this species determination - these specimens were found several counties south of the type locality in Placer county.
context_page_description: Millipedes, myriapods of the class Diplopoda, contain approximately 12,000 described species organized into 16 extant orders and approximately 140 families. This list is based on Shear, 2011, sorted alphabetically by order and taxonomically within order.
  Note: The names of millipede orders end in "-ida"; suborders end in "-idea". Superfamilies end in "-oidea", while families end in "-idae".
context_section_description: Hirudisomatidae
  Polyzoniidae
  Siphonotidae
caption: Octoglena sierra (Polyzoniidae), California
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