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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
TEREDINIDAE: BANKIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Myida (Order)
> Pholadoidea (Superfamily)
> Teredinidae (Family)
> Bankiinae (Subfamily)
> Bankia (Genus)
> australis (Species)
Images: Bankia australis (Calman, 1920)
Cockle Bay, Howick, Auckland, NZ (MA104625). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Cockle Bay, Howick, Auckland, NZ (MA104625). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
TEREDINIDAE: BANKIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Myida (Order)
> Pholadoidea (Superfamily)
> Teredinidae (Family)
> Bankiinae (Subfamily)
> Bankia (Genus)
> australis (Species)
Details: Bankia australis (Calman, 1920)
Size/Grows to:
Width 13mm, Height 13mm
Distribution:
North and South Island. Also Brisbane, Queensland, from 0-830m
Type Data:
  • (no exact data) Auckland, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Ship-worm, Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Morley, M.S., Bain, B.A. Dec/2007 The Perfect Habitat? Fauna living in empty Bankia australis tubes, Poirieria, 33 (p.26)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.430)
  • Calman, W.T. 1920 Notes on marine wood-boring animals 1. The shipworms (Teredinidae), Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 27 (p.397) Original Description

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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