Boonea bisuturalis

Boonea bisuturalis
Drawing of a shell of Boonea bisuturalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Family: Pyramidellidae
Genus: Boonea
Species:
B. bisuturalis
Binomial name
Boonea bisuturalis
(Say, 1822) [1]
Synonyms
  • Odostomia (Boonea) bisuturalis (Say, T., 1822)
  • Menestho bisuturalis (Say, 1822)
  • Turritella bisuturalis Say, 1822
  • Chemnitzia bisuturalis (Say, 1822)
  • Odostomia bisuturalis (Say, 1822)
  • Chemnitzia trifida (Totten, 1834)
  • Actaeon trifida (Totten, 1834)
  • Menestho trifida (Totten, 1834)
  • Odostomia trifida (Totten, 1834)
  • Acteon trifidus Totten, 1834
  • Jaminia exigua Couthouy, 1838
  • Menestho insculpta (De Kay, 1843)
  • Odostomia insculpta De Kay, 1843
  • Menestho bedequensis (Bartsch, 1909)
  • Odostomia bedequensis Bartsch, 1909
  • Menestho ovilensis (Bartsch, 1909)
  • Odostomia ovilensis Bartsch, 1909

Boonea bisuturalis (also known as the three-toothed odostome or the two-groove odostome) is a species of minute sea snail, a pyramidellid gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. The species is one of eleven known species within the Boonea genus of gastropods.[2]

This species is ectoparasitic (an external parasite) on various bivalves and other gastropods. It is notorious as a pest on oyster beds. Its preferred hosts are the common periwinkle Littorina littorea, the mud snail Tritia obsoleta and the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica [3]

  1. ^ Say, T. (1822). An account of some of the marine shells of the United States. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2: 221-248, 257-276, 302-325
  2. ^ Bouchet, P. (2011). Boonea bisuturalis (Say, 1822). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=397024 on 2011-03-14
  3. ^ Robert Robertson and Terry Mau-Lastovicka, The Ectoparasitism of Boonea and Fargoa (Gastropoda: Pyramidellidae); Biol Bull157: 320-333. (October 1979)