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Author: Jan Delsing
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Boonea seminuda (C. B. Adams, 1839) Half-smooth Odostome
Distribution: New Jersey, Massachusetts; Florida, Texas; Mexico; Brazil. Size: 7 mm
Description: Color off white; shape conic; sculpture of spiral and axial ribs that gives a cancellate, beaded appearance; inner spaces with microscopic axial riblets; body whorl with upper half cancellate, lower half with spiral cords and crowded axial threads in inner spaces; tilted nuclear whorl smooth, bulbous, sinistrally heterostrophic; first nuclear whorl partly exposed, producing a beadlike appearance; aperture auriform, outer lip crenulate.
Habitat: Ectoparasite on a variety of hosts, usually on Aequipecten irradians. Depth range 0 to 101 m (330 ft).
Remarks: Other hosts are Crepidula fornicata and C. depressa. See Merrill and Boss (1964); Ode (1969j, 1993b); Ode and Speers (1972f); Robertson (1978); Robertson and Mau-Lastovicka (1979); Wise (1996).
Tunnell, J.W. , Andrews, J. , Barrera, N.C. & Moretzsohn, F., 2010. Encyclopedia of Texas seashells.