Species Bankia australis (Calman, 1920)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Xylotyra australis Calman, W.T. 1920. Notes on Marine Wood-boring Animals-1. The shipworms (Teredinidae). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1920(3): 391-403 [397, text-fig. 6-8].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• Bankia archimima Iredale, T. 1932. Cobra or shipworms: a systematic account of the teredinid mollusca of Port Jackson. 24-40, pls 1-4 in Destruction of timber by marine organisms in the port of Sydney. Sydney : Sydney Harbour Trust. [35, pl. 4, figs 5-8].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.154677 (in Oregon Pine (Pseudotsuga douglasii)), Pyrmont, Port Jackson, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia [33°52'30"E 151°11'60"S].
• Bankia debenhami Iredale, T. 1932. Cobra or shipworms: a systematic account of the teredinid mollusca of Port Jackson. 24-40, pls 1-4 in Destruction of timber by marine organisms in the port of Sydney. Sydney : Sydney Harbour Trust. [34, pl. 3, figs 5-8].

  Type data:

   Holotype Pyrmont, Port Jackson, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.
• Bankia gabriela Cotton, B.C. 1934. Pelecypoda of the Flindersian Region, Southern Australia, No. 3. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 5(2): 173-178 [178, figs 5-7] [not Bankia (Nausitora) gabriela Nair, 1955].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.10970, Denekin Slip, Port Adelaide, South Australia.
• Bankia grenningi Iredale, T. 1936. Queensland cobra or shipworms: a systematic account of the teredinid molluscs of South Queensland. In, Watson, C.J.J. et al. (eds). Destruction of timber by marine organisms in the port of Brisbane, Queensland. Queensland Forest Services Bulletin 12: 33-41, 2 pls [37, pl. 2, figs 1-7].

  Type data:

   Holotype Sandgate, Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia.
• Bankia occasiuncula Iredale, T. 1932. Cobra or shipworms: a systematic account of the teredinid mollusca of Port Jackson. 24-40, pls 1-4 in Destruction of timber by marine organisms in the port of Sydney. Sydney : Sydney Harbour Trust. [36, pl. 4, figs 1-4].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.154679 (in Oregon Pine (Pseudotsuga douglasii)), Goat island, Port Jackson, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia [33°51'18"S 151°11'49.2"E].
• Bankia rosenthali Iredale, T. 1932. Cobra or shipworms: a systematic account of the teredinid mollusca of Port Jackson. 24-40, pls 1-4 in Destruction of timber by marine organisms in the port of Sydney. Sydney : Sydney Harbour Trust. [35, pl. 3, figs 9-12].

  Type data:

   Holotype Oyster Cove, Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Bankia australis (Calman, 1920).

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Nausitora saulii Wright, 1866 [incorrect usage]. —
  Wright, E.P. 1866. Contributions to the natural history of the Teredinidae. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 25: 561-568, pls 64-65 [567, pl. 65, figs 9-15] (type locality incorrectly given as Port Phiillip, Australia; the correct locality is Callao Bay, Peru; Australian specimens now referred to Bankia australis (Calman, 1920))
  Turner, R.D. 1966. A Survey and Illustrated Catalogue of the Teredinidae. Cambridge : Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 265 pp. [120] (provides explanation of the incorrect type locality citation)
• Calobates saulii (Wright, 1966) [misidentification]. —
  Hedley, C. 1898. Further Notes on Australasian Shipworms. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 23: 91-96, figs 1-9 [94, figs 7-9] (non Nausitora saulii Wright, 1866; because of Wright's incorrect citation of the type locality as Port Phillip, Australia for Nausitora saulii, Hedley and others used this name for a common species in Australia; Hedley place "saulii" in the genus Calobates; name sometimes cited Calobates saulii 'Wright' Hedley, 1898)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, wood.

Extra Ecological Information

Bores in wood

 

General References

Ibrahim, J.V. 1981. Season of settlement of a number of shipworms (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in six Australian harbours. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 32: 591-604

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [27]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [208]

Marshall, J.V. & Turner, R.D. 1974. Survey of marine borers 1970-1972. The family Teredinidae in Australian waters. CSIRO, University of NSW pp. 1-158. [fig. 26] (distribution)

Popham, J.D. & Dickson, M.R. 1973. Bacterial associations in the Teredo Bankia australis (Lamellibranchia: Mollusca). Marine Biology 19: 338-340

Rimmer, M.A., Battaglene, S.L. & Dostine, P.L. 1983. Observations on the distribution of Bankia australis Calman (Mollusca, Teredinidae) in the Patonga Creek mangrove swamp, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 34(2): 355-357

Si, A., Alexander, C.G. & Bellwood, O. 2000. Habitat partitioning by two wood-boring invertebrates in a mangrove system in tropical Australia. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 80: 1131– 1132

Turner, R.D. 1966. A Survey and Illustrated Catalogue of the Teredinidae. Cambridge : Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 265 pp. [89]

Turner, R.D. 1971. Australian Shipworms. Australian Natural History 139-145 [144, pl. 4]

Turner, R.D. 1971. Identification of wood boring mollusks. pp. 17-64 in Jones, E.B.G. & Eltringham, S.K. (eds). Marine Fungi and Fouling Organisms of Wood. Paris : Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. [34]

 

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [359, fig. 5] (Bankia Or Many-coned Shipworm)

 

History of changes

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