Genus Bankia Gray, 1842

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bankia Gray, 1842 [Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum ed. 44: 76, 91].

  Type species:

   Teredo bipalmulata Lamarck, 1801 by subsequent designation, see Gray, J.E. 1847. A list of the Genera of Recent Mollusca, their Synonyms and Types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 129-242 [188].
• Bankiella Bartsch, 1921 [Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 34(3): 25, 26].

  Type species:

   Bankia mexicana Bartsch, 1921 by original designation.
• Neobankia Bartsch, P. 1921. A new classification of the shipworms and descriptions of some new wood boring mollusks. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 34: 25-32 [25, 26].

  Type species:

   Bankia zeteki Bartsch, 1924 by original designation.
• Deviobankia 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. [33].

  Type species:

   Bankia debenhami Iredale, 1932 by original designation.
• Lyrodobankia Moll, 1941 [Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde (1941): 200; not available: no type species designated. Turner (1966), A survey and illustrated catalogue of the Teredinidae: 80, 108, designated Nausitora kamiyai Roch, 1929, as type species, but she treated Lyrobankia as a synonym of Bankia, thus leaving it an unavailale name].
• Liliobankia Clench, W.J. & R.D. Turner 1946. The genus Bankia in the Western Atlantic. Johnsonia: Monographs of the marine mollusks of the Western Atlantic 2(19): 1-28, pls 1-16 [17].

  Type species:

   Bankia katherinae Clench & Turner, 1946 by original designation.
• Plumulella Clench, W.J. & R.D. Turner 1946. The genus Bankia in the Western Atlantic. Johnsonia: Monographs of the marine mollusks of the Western Atlantic 2(19): 1-28, pls 1-16 [24].
• Bankiura Moll, 1952 [Institut Français d'Afrique Noire, Catalogues 8: 85].

  Type species:

   Teredo bipalmulata Lamarck, 1801 by original designation.
• Clupibankia Moll, 1952 [Institut Français d'Afrique Noire, Catalogues 8: 85].

  Type species:

   Bankia barthelowi Bartsch, 1925 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

India, Hong Kong, Eastern Indian Ocean, Indo-Malaysia, Indo-China, Christmas Island, East India, Madagascar, Red Sea, West Bengal, Singapore, Oceania, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Mascarene Islands, Tropical Indo-West Pacific, Temperate Indo-West Pacific, Honduras, Sulawesi, New Zealand.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), 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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

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]

Turner, R.D. 1966. A Survey and Illustrated Catalogue of the Teredinidae. Cambridge : Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 265 pp. [80]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	MYIDA	29-Mar-2011	MOVED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
		10-Mar-2011	MODIFIED