''Boonea seminuda'' is a
species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a
marine
Marine is an adjective meaning of or pertaining to the sea or ocean.
Marine or marines may refer to:
Ocean
* Maritime (disambiguation)
* Marine art
* Marine biology
* Marine debris
* Marine habitats
* Marine life
* Marine pollution
Military
* ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. The species is one of eleven known species within the
Boonea
''Boonea'' is a small genus of small sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks.Bouchet, P. (2011). Boonea Robertson, 1978. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=397023 on 2 ...
genus of gastropods.
[Bouchet, P. (2011). ''Boonea seminuda'' (C. B. Adams, 1839). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=420438 on 2011-10-26]
The preferred host of this
ectoparasite
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has ...
is the common slipper shell
Crepidula fornicata
''Crepidula fornicata'' is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Calyptraeidae, the slipper snails and cup and saucer snails. It has many common names, including common slipper shell, common Atlantic ...
or the Atlantic bay scallop
Argopecten irradians.
Description
The glossy white, shell is translucent. Its length measures 3.75 mm. The
teleoconch contains seven convex
whorl
A whorl ( or ) is an individual circle, oval, volution or equivalent in a whorled pattern, which consists of a spiral or multiple concentric objects (including circles, ovals and arcs).
Whorls in nature
File:Photograph and axial plane floral ...
s. Those of the
spire and upper half of the body are longitudinally plicate. They are crossed by three spiral lines, giving a granulated appearance. The folds terminate at the periphery. Below it on the
body whorl
The body whorl is part of the morphology of the shell in those gastropod mollusks that possess a coiled shell. The term is also sometimes used in a similar way to describe the shell of a cephalopod mollusk.
In gastropods
In gastropods, the b ...
are four spiral striae. The
suture is distinct, but indistinctly margined. The
columellar fold is inconspicuous.
G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VIII p. 357; 1886 (described as ''Odostomia seminuda'')
/ref>
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the following locations:Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
* Gulf of Mexico: Mexico
* Puerto Rico
References
* Adams, C. B. (1839). ''Observations on some species of the marine shells of Massachusetts, with descriptions of five new species''. Boston Journal of Natural History 2: 262–288, pl. 4
* Dall, W. H. (1884). ''On a collection of shells sent from Florida by Mr. Henry Hemphill''. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 6(384) 318–342, pl. 10
* Bartsch, P. (1909). ''Pyramidellidae of New England and the adjacent region''. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 34: 67-113, pls. 11-14
* Henderson, J. B. and P. Bartsch. (1914). ''Littoral marine mollusks of Chincoteague Island, Virginia''. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 47(2055) 411–421, pls. 13-14
External links
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
To World Register of Marine Species
{{Taxonbar, from=Q3174953
Pyramidellidae
Gastropods described in 1839