Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Myida > Superfamily Pholadoidea > Family Teredinidae > Subfamily Bankiinae

Bankia Gray, 1842

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Bankia (Bankiella)*	Bartsch, 1921	synonym
*Bankia (Bankiopsis)*	Clench & R. D. Turner, 1946	synonym
*Bankiopsis*	Clench & R. D. Turner, 1946	synonym
*Xylotrya*	Blainville, 1828	synonym

Children

Bankia bipennata (W. Turton, 1819)
Bankia carinata (J. E. Gray, 1827)
Bankia fimbriatula Moll & Roch, 1931

Literature

basis of record	Turner, R. D. (1966). A survey and illustrated catalogue of Teredinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge (Massachusetts). ix + 265 pp.
additional source	Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.
additional source	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Palekar, V. C. & Bal, D. V. (1955). Marine organisms injurious to submerged timber in the Bombay Harbour. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 53(2): 201-204, 1 pl., 12 text-figs., 1 map.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Bankia Gray, 1842. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138534