 The name Diplopoda itself was coined in 1844 by the French zoologist Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville.From 1890 to 1940, millipede taxonomy was driven by relatively few researchers at any given time, with major contributions by Carl Attems, Karl Wilhelm Verhoeff and Ralph Vary Chamberlin, who each described over 1,000 species, as well as Orator F. Cook, Filippo Silvestri, R. I. Pocock, and Henry W. Brölemann.This was a period when the science of diplopodology flourished