Bankivia fasciata

Bankivia fasciata, common name the banded kelp shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1][2]

Bankivia fasciata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Bankivia
Species:
B. fasciata
Binomial name
Bankivia fasciata
(Menke, 1830)
Synonyms[1]
  • Bankivia lugubris Gould, 1861
  • Bankivia major A. Adams, 1853
  • Bankivia nitida A. Adams, 1853
  • Bankivia purpurascens A. Adams, 1853
  • Bankivia varians Krauss, 1848
  • Cantharidus fasciatus (Menke, 1830)
  • Phasianella fasciata Menke, 1830 (original description)
  • Phasianella fulminata Menke, 1830
  • Phasianella undatella Menke, 1830

Description

The length of the shell varies between 15 mm and 25 mm. The thin, imperforate, elongated shell has a turreted shape. This is a variable species in size and coloration. It is polished and shining, white, creamy or pink, with spiral bands of pink, purplish-red or purplish-brown, or narrow oblique zigzag stripes of pinkish-brown, usually with a narrow subsutural fascia of dark or pinkish. The spire is elevated and slender. The dark apex is a little blunt. The about 9 whorls are, very slightly convex, and a trifle impressed below the sutures. The surface (under a lens) is very densely, finely spirally striate. The body whorl is rounded. The base of the shell shows a few concentric, separated, impressed lines. The aperture is ovate. The thin outer lipis acute. The sinuous columella is arcuate above and narrowly reflexed, obliquely truncate below.[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Aqaba, off Mozambique and off New South Wales to South Australia, and off Tasmania

References
  1. Bouchet, P. (2012). Bankivia fasciata (Menke, 1830). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=564813 on 2012-11-23
  2. Beu A.G. (2004) Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 1: Revised generic positions and recognition of warm-water and cool-water migrants. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 34(2): 111-265.
  3. H. Pilsbry, Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Cantharidus fasciatus)
  • Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H., 1902. Catalogue of the Marine Shells of Victoria. Part V. Proc. R. Soc. Vict.n.s., 14(2):85-138
  • Shirley, J., 1911. Additions to the Marine Mollusca of Queensland. Proc. R. Soc. Qld, XXIII(1):96-96
  • Cotton, B.C. (1959). South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Adelaide : Govt. Printer.
  • Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F., 1962 [31/Dec/1962]. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Mem. Aust. Mus., 11:0-0
  • Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J., 1962. Marine Mollusca of Victoria. Melbourne Univ. Press, Melbourne. 475
  • Barash, A., Danin, Z. & Yaron, I. (1980). Bankivia fasciata (Menke, 1830) in the Gulf of Aquaba . Bolletino Malacologico. 16 (1-2)
  • Wilson, B., 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Odyssey Publishing, Kallaroo, WA
  • To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
  • To Encyclopedia of Life
  • To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
  • To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
  • To World Register of Marine Species
  • "Bankivia fasciata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
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