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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Bivalvia
Subclassis: Heterodonta
Ordo: Myoida

Familia: Teredinidae
Subfamilia: Bankiinae
Genus: Bankia
Subgenera: Bankia - Bankiella - Clupibankia - Deviobankia - Liliobankia - Lyrodobankia - Neobankia - Plumulella
Name

Bankia J.E. Gray, 1842

Type species: Teredo bipalmulata Lamarck, 1801
References

Gray, J.E. 1842. Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum, ed. 44: 76.
Turner, R.D. 1966. A survey and illustrated catalogue of the Teredinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. 263 pp.

Bankia is a genus of ship-worms, marine bivalve molluscs of the family Teredinidae.
Species in the genus Bankia

Bankia australis (Calman, 1920)
Bankia bipennata (Turton, 1819)
Bankia brevis (Deshayes, 1863)
Bankia carinata (J. E. Gray, 1827) – carinate shipworm
Bankia cieba Clench and Turner, 1946
Bankia destructa Clench and Turner, 1946
Bankia fimbriatula Moll and Roch, 1931 – fimbriate shipworm
Bankia fosteri Clench and Turner, 1946
Bankia gouldi (Bartsch, 1908) – cupped shipworm, gould shipworm
Bankia martensi (Stempell, 1899)
Bankia neztalia (Turner and McKoy, 1979)
Bankia setacea (Tryon, 1863) – feathery shipworm
Bankia sibirica Roch, 1934
Bankia zeteki Bartsch, 1921

References

"Bankia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1

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