Monograph of the Gomphodesmidae, a family of African polydesmoid millipeds

A naturalist examining the soil and litter fauna almost anywhere in sub-Saharan Africa may expect to encounter millipeds of the family Gomphodesmidae.
This book attempts to develop the classification of the Gomphodesmidae, so far as available knowledge permits, into a condition suitable for the initiation of phylogenetic, ecological, and behaviorial studies of these interesting animals, in addition to its primary purpose of facilitating their identification.