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 > Genus Bankia

Bankia bipennata (W. Turton, 1819)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Bankia*	Gray, 1842	accepted genus name
*Bankia (Bankiella)*	Bartsch, 1921	synonym
*Bankia (Bankiopsis)*	Clench & R. D. Turner, 1946	synonym
*Bankiopsis*	Clench & R. D. Turner, 1946	synonym
*Xylotrya*	Blainville, 1828	synonym

Species group names

*Bankia bipinnata*	[sic]	orthographic variant
*Teredo bipennata*	W. Turton, 1819	synonym
*Teredo cucullata*	Jeffreys, 1860	synonym

Literature

basis of record	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	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	Turner, R. D. (1966). A survey and illustrated catalogue of Teredinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge (Massachusetts). ix + 265 pp.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Bankia bipennata (W. Turton, 1819). 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:141597