Fargoa
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Fargoa is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. This genus is currently placed in the the subfamily Chrysallidinae.
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[edit] Life habits
The members of Fargoa are ectoparasites on the serpulid polychaete Hydroides (Robertson & Mau-Lastovica, 1979).
[edit] Species within the genus Fargoa
- Fargoa calesi (Bartsch, 1955) = Fargoa bushiana (Bartsch, 1909) (as Odostomia bushiana) (Type species) [1]
- Fargoa bartschi (Winkley, 1909)
- Fargoa buijsei (de Jong and Coomans, 1988)
- Fargoa dianthophila (H. W. Wells & M. J. Wells, 1961)
- Fargoa dux (Dall & Bartsch, 1906)
- Fargoa gibbosa (Bush, 1909)
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Schander C.; Van Aartsen J.J.;Corgan J. X. (1999). "Families and genera of the Pyramidelloidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Bollettino Malacologico 34 (9-12).
[edit] References
- Bartsch, P. (1955). "The pyramidellid molluscs of the Pliocene deposits of North St. Petersburg, Florida". Smithsonian Micellaneous Collections 106 (20): 1-102, 18 plates.
- Robertson, R., Mau-Lastovicka, T. (1979). "The ectoparasitism of Boonea and Fargoa (Gastropoda: Pyramidellidae)". Biological Bulletin 157: 320-333.
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