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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
Geographical Range:
AC
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

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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