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=== Internal phylogeny ===

Within the myriapods, centipedes are believed to be the first of the extant classes to branch from the [[Most recent common ancestor|last common ancestor]]. The five orders of centipedes are: [[Craterostigmomorpha]], [[Geophilomorpha]], [[Lithobiomorpha]], [[Scolopendromorpha]], and [[Scutigeromorpha]]. These orders are united into the [[clade]] Chilopoda by the following [[synapomorphy|synapomorphies]]:<ref name="phylogeny">{{cite book |last1=Edgecombe |first1=G. D. |last2=Giribet |first2=G. |editor1-last=Bousquets |editor1-first=J. Llorente |editor2-last=Morrone |editor2-first=J. J. |year=2002 |chapter=Myriapod phylogeny and the relationships of Chilopoda |pages=143–168 |title=Biodiversidad, Taxonomía y Biogeografia de Artrópodos de México: Hacia una Síntesis de su Conocimiento, Volumen III |publisher=[[National Autonomous University of Mexico|Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México]] |chapter-url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/ggs/files/edgecombe_giribet_2002.pdf }}</ref>