Polychaeta name details
original description
Knight-Jones, Phyllis. (1973). Spirorbinae (Serpulidae: Polychaeta) from southeastern Australia. Pt. 1. A new genus, four new subgenera and seven new species. <em>Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Ser. Zoology.</em> 24(4): 231-259., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/64438 page(s): 247; note: For Amplaria spiculosa [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Amplaria "derived from the latin amplus, referring to the large number of thoracic segments, with a termination to signify the apparent affinities with Pileolaria" (Knight-Jones, 1973: 247) [details]
Homonymy replaced junior homonym to Amplaria Chamberlin, 1941 in Diplopoda. Replaced by Amplicaria Knight-Jones, 1984 [details]
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