Boonea

The vast majority of the species within this genus are only known to be distributed within North American waters, Hudson Bay is a very populated location for the Boonea genus.

Little is known about the biology of the members of this genus. As most members of the Pyramidellidae sensu lato they are most likely ectoparasites.

The species Boonea impressa however is known to be a severe pest of the edible oyster Crassostrea virginica (Wilson, Powell & Ray, 1988)

There are eleven known species within the genus Boonea, these include the following:

• Boonea bisuturalis (Say, 1822)[3]
• Boonea cincta (Carpenter, 1864)[4]
• Boonea impressa (Say, 1822)[5]
• Boonea jadisi (Olsson & McGinty, 1958)[6]
• Boonea kinpana Hori & Nakamura, 1999[7]
• Boonea okamurai Hori & Okutani, 1996
• Boonea scymnocelata Pimenta, Absalão & Miyaji, 2009[8]
• Boonea seminuda (C. B. Adams, 1839)[9] - type species, as Jaminia seminuda
• Boonea somersi (Verrill & Bush, 1900)[10]
• Boonea suoana Hori & Nakamura, 1999[11]
• Boonea umboniocola Hori and Okutani, 1995 [12]

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  Drawing of a shell specimen of Boonea bisuturalis, by G. W. Tryon.
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  Drawing of a shell specimen of Boonea impressa.
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  Drawing of a shell specimen of Boonea seminuda.

• Adams, C. B. (1839). "Observations on some species of marine shells of Massachusetts, with descriptions of five new species". Boston Journal of Natural History. 2: 262–288, pl. 4.
• Wilson, E. A.; Powell, E. N. & Ray, S. M. (1988). "The effect of the ectoparasitic pyramidellid snail, Boonea impressa, on the growth and health of oysters, Crassostrea virginica , under field conditions". Fishery Bulletin. 86 (3): 553–566.