NOMEN: Anguiformia Latreille 1825 [P.A. Latreille. Familles naturelles du règne animal. – Paris, J.B. Baillière, 1825: 1-570]
ORIGINAL SPELLING (Latreille 1825): Anguiformia (in Latin) & Anguiformes (in French)
ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Latreille 1825): Glomeris + Julus + Polydesmus (= Polydeme) + Craspedosoma (= Craspedosome)
JUNIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYM:
= Chilognathia Pearce 1936
TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Julus/fg (sine Polyxenus; incl. Glomeris)
TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE: -
MODERN
STATUS: 
the valid, the
oldest name of a generally accepted, holophyletic taxon.
Systematic position and classification of Anguiformia:
| Diplopoda Penicillata Anguiformia Opisthandria Proterandria |
COMMENTS. Often for this taxon a wrong name Chilognatha is used. Actually the name Chilognatha Latreille 1802 is the oldest synonym of Diplopoda Gervais 1844. Probably, for the first time the name "Chilognatha" was applied for Anguiformia by Pocock 1887; earlier another restriction of the name Chilognatha was made by Latzel (1884).
The name Anguiformia Latreille 1825 should not be confused with the name Anguiformes Latreille 1831 (whose Latin spelling coincides with the French spelling of Anguiformia): the name Anguiformes is the senior synonym of Proterandria.