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Species Bankia australis (Calman, 1920)

Bankia Or Many-coned Shipworm


Compiler and date details

December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia

 

Generic Combinations

  • Bankia australis (Calman, 1920).

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

 

Distribution

States

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


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

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]

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
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)
11-Mar-2011 MODIFIED