Fargoa
Genus of gastropods
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Fargoa is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the tribe Chrysallidini within the family Pyramidellidae.
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Family: | Pyramidellidae |
| Genus: | Fargoa Bartsch, 1955[1] |
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Life habits
The members of Fargoa are ectoparasites on the serpulid polychaete Hydroides.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Fargoa include:
- Fargoa calesi (Bartsch, 1955) = Fargoa bushiana (Bartsch, 1909) - as Odostomia bushiana, type species[3]
- Fargoa bartschi (Winkley, 1909)
- Fargoa buijsei (de Jong & Coomans, 1988)
- Fargoa dianthophila (H. W. Wells & M. J. Wells, 1961)
- Fargoa dux (Dall & Bartsch, 1906)
- Fargoa gaudens Odé, 1993
- Fargoa gibbosa (Bush, 1909)