Boonea is a small genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of small sea snail

Sea snail

Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....

s, pyramidellid

Pyramidellidae

Pyramidellidae, common name the pyram family, or pyramid shells, is a voluminous taxonomic family of mostly small and minute ectoparasitic sea snails, marine heterobranch gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs....

 gastropod mollusks.

This genus is currently placed in the subfamily Odostomiinae

Odostomiinae

Odostomiinae, Odostomia snails and their allies, is a taxonomic subfamily of minute parasitic sea snails. These are marine heterobranch gastropod mollusks, or micromollusks, in the family Pyramidellidae.-Taxonomy:...

, of the family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Pyramidellidae

Pyramidellidae

Pyramidellidae, common name the pyram family, or pyramid shells, is a voluminous taxonomic family of mostly small and minute ectoparasitic sea snails, marine heterobranch gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs....

 (according to the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi

Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)

The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...

 (2005)).

Life habits

Little is known about the biology of the members of this genus. As most members of the Pyramidellidae

Pyramidellidae

Pyramidellidae, common name the pyram family, or pyramid shells, is a voluminous taxonomic family of mostly small and minute ectoparasitic sea snails, marine heterobranch gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs....

 sensu lato they are most likely ectoparasites.

The species Boonea impressa

Boonea impressa

Boonea impressa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.-Distribution:This species occurs in the following locations:* Caribbean Sea* Gulf of Mexico* Mexico...

however is known to be a severe pest of the edible oyster

Oyster

The word oyster is used as a common name for a number of distinct groups of bivalve molluscs which live in marine or brackish habitats. The valves are highly calcified....

 Crassostrea virginica (Wilson, Powell & Ray, 1988)

Species

Species within the genus Boonea include:

• Boonea bisuturalis
  Boonea bisuturalis
  Boonea bisuturalis is a species of minute sea snail, a pyramidellid gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams....
  
  (Say
  Thomas Say
  Thomas Say was an American naturalist, entomologist, malacologist, herpetologist and carcinologist. A taxonomist, he is often considered to be the father of descriptive entomology in the United States. He described more than 1,000 new species of beetles and over 400 species of insects of other...
  
  , 1822)
• Boonea cincta
  Boonea cincta
  Boonea cincta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.-External links:* * * *...
  
  (Carpenter
  Phillip Pearsall Carpenter
  Philip Pearsall Carpenter Rev. Dr. , who in 1841, was ordained Presbyterian minister in England, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in 1860, and whose field work as a malacologist or conchologist in North America is still well regarded today...
  
  , 1864)
• Boonea impressa
  Boonea impressa
  Boonea impressa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.-Distribution:This species occurs in the following locations:* Caribbean Sea* Gulf of Mexico* Mexico...
  
  (Say
  Thomas Say
  Thomas Say was an American naturalist, entomologist, malacologist, herpetologist and carcinologist. A taxonomist, he is often considered to be the father of descriptive entomology in the United States. He described more than 1,000 new species of beetles and over 400 species of insects of other...
  
  , 1822)
• Boonea jadisi
  Boonea jadisi
  Boonea jadisi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.-External links:* * *...
  
  (Olsson & McGinty, 1958)
• Boonea kinpana
  Boonea kinpana
  Boonea kinpana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.-External links:* * * *...
  
  Hori & Nakamura, 1999
• Boonea scymnocelata
  Boonea scymnocelata
  Boonea scymnocelata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.-External links:* *...
  
  Pimenta, Absalão & Miyaji, 2009
• Boonea seminuda
  Boonea seminuda
  Boonea seminuda is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.-Distribution:This species occurs in the following locations:* Caribbean Sea* Colombia* Gulf of Maine* Gulf of Mexico...
  
  (C. B. Adams, 1839) - type species, as Jaminia seminuda
• Boonea sommersi (Verrill & Bush, 1900)
• Boonea suoana
  Boonea suoana
  Boonea suoana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.-External links:* * *...
  
  Hori & Nakamura, 1999