Cut Or Tear In Roof Of Mouth

Bankia, molluscs carved wood.

Wood worked for Bankia


Two pieces of my collection.



Bankia setacea, digital illustration

The Bankia are molluscs marine, looking quite different from other known, for example mussels or clams, in fact they have a long look and live worm in the wood of trees that for one reason or another are found in the sea (fallen trees , old boats, poles ...) bore a hole in his head and feed and digest cellulose by a community of bacteria living inside (symbiosis), then these tunnels inside the lining of calcareous material in long colonial galleries .

The Bankia produce these beautiful natural sculptures can be found stranded on beaches, are the remains of their colonies, I keep some in my collection of rare items Nature, recently I was amused that a new large national financial institution cogiera the Latin name of these molluscs as corporate image.