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genus

Bankivia Beck in Krauss, 1849

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Trochida »  family Trochidae - top-shells »  subfamily Umboniinae

Description

Shell imperforate, elongated, narrow, conical, thin, but slightly-pearly ; aperture small, about one-third the length of shell; columella slightly twisted, subtruncated toward the base.
Suter, H. 1913. Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca.
Shell very elongate, shining smooth, densely microscopically striate; columella sinuous, truncate below forming a subdentate termination; outer lip thin and ample, aperture smooth.
Author: Jan Delsing

Included taxa

Number of records: 1

species Bankivia fasciata (Menke, 1830) - Banded Kelp-shell

Bankivia fasciata


Links and literature

EN Australian Faunal Directory [9c399ea2-e936-40fb-bdb3-2365929c1e22]

ABRS (2009-2019): Australian Faunal Directory [https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/home], Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra [as Bankivia Krauss, 1848]
Data retrieved on: 15 February 2015
EN The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [1209318]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [https://www.irmng.org] [as Bankivia Krauss, 1848]
Data retrieved on: 7 February 2020
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