Polydesmida

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Mandibulata
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Classis: Diplopoda
Subclassis: Chilognatha
Infraclassis: Helminthomorpha
Superordo: Merocheta
Ordo:
Subordines (5)ː Dalodesmidea - Dobrodesmidea - Polydesmidea ...

Ammodesmidae - Aphelidesmidae - Australiosomatidae - Campodesmidae - Chelodesmidae - Cryptodesmidae - Cyrtodesmidae - Dalodesmidae - Dobrodesmidae – Doratodesmidae - Dorsoporidae - Eurymerodesmidae - Euryuridae - Fuhrmannodesmidae - Gomphodesmidae - Haplodesmidae - Holistophallidae - Macrosternodesmidae - Nearctodesmidae - Oniscodesmidae - Opisotretidae - Oxydesmidae - Paradoxosomatidae - Platyrhacidae - Polydesmidae - Pyrgodesmidae - Rhachodesmidae - Sphaeriodesmidae - Trichopolydesmidae - Tridontomidae - Vaalogonopodidae - Xystodesmidae - Incertae sedis

Polydesmida Leach, 1815

• Leach, W.E. 1815. Entomology [pp. 57–172]. In: Brewster, D. (Ed). Brewster’s Edinburgh Encyclopedia. Volume IX [part I]. W. Blackwood, J. Waugh, etc., Edinburgh, 764 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Dong, Y., Zhu, L-X., Bai, Y., Ou, Y-Y. & Wang, C-B. 2016. Complete mitochondrial genomes of two flat-backed millipedes by next-generation sequencing (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). ZooKeys 637: 1–20. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.637.9909. Reference page. 
• Golovatch, S.I. 2013: A reclassification of the millipede superfamily Trichopolydesmoidea, with descriptions of two new species from the Aegean region (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). ZooKeys 340: 63–78. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.340.6295 Reference page. 
• Mesibov, R. 2003: Two new and unusual genera of millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida) from Tasmania, Australia. Zootaxa, 368: 1–32. Abstract & excerpt
• Moritz, L. & Koch, M. 2020. No Tömösváry organ in flat backed millipedes (Diplopoda, Polydesmida) Pp 103–115 In Korsós, Z. & Dányi, L. 2020. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Myriapodology, Budapest, Hungary (25‒31 August 2019). ZooKeys, 930: 1–229. Reference page. . DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.930.48438 Reference page. 
• ZooBank
• Shear, W.A., Ferreira, R.L., Iniesta, L.F.M. & Marek, P.E. 2016. A millipede missing link: Dobrodesmidae, a remarkable new polydesmidan millipede family from Brazil with supernumerary rings (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), and the establishment of a new suborder Dobrodesmidea. Zootaxa 2016(4178): 3–371. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2016.4178.390. Reference page.