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 carinata (J. E. Gray, 1827)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Teredo Linnaeus, 1758

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 (Bankiella) indica*	Nair, 1954	synonym
*Bankia caribbea*	Clench & R. D. Turner, 1946	synonym
*Bankia indica*	Nair, 1954	synonym
*Bankiopsis carribaea*	(Clench & R. D. Turner, 1946)	synonym
*Nausitora kamiyai*	Roch, 1929	synonym
*Nausitora orientalis*	(Roch, 1929)	synonym
*Nausitoria orientalis*	Roch, 1929	synonym
*Teredo minima*	Blainville, 1828	synonym
*Xylotrya philippii*	Gray, 1851	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: shipworm

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	Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp.
additional source	Velásquez M., Valentich-Scott P. & Capelo J.C. (2017). Marine boring bivalve mollusks from Isla Margarita, Venezuela. The Festivus. 49(3): 247-269.
additional source	Branch, G. M. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg.
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	Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 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.
identification resource	Cosel, R. von; Gofas, S. (2019). Marine bivalves of tropical West Africa: from Rio de Oro to southern Angola. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum, Paris, IRD Éditions, Marseille (Faune et Flore tropicales, volume 48): 1-1104.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Bankia carinata (J. E. Gray, 1827). 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:141598