The order originated in South America during the Paleocene, and due to the continent's former isolation remained confined to it during most of the Cenozoic.
Scolopendra cingulata | Glomerella cingulata | Amegilla cingulata |
--spelled in Olu 2010 as Phymorhynchus cingulatus Warén & Bouchet, 2009, but corerct name is either Phymorhynchus cingulata Warén & Bouchet, 2009 or Phymorhynchus cingulatus (Dall, 1890)--> Cordesia provannoides, the shrimp Alvinocaris muricola, the galatheids Munidopsis geyeri and Munidopsis livida and probably the holothurid Chiridota heheva.
This species was firstly described by Eduard von Martens under the name Paludina cingulata in 1860 based on specimen collected by Henri Mouhot.