Fargoa
| Fargoa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata |
| Superfamily: | Pyramidelloidea |
| Family: | Pyramidellidae |
| Subfamily: | Odostomiinae |
| Tribe: | Chrysallidini |
| Genus: | Fargoa Bartsch, 1955[1] |
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Fargoa is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the tribe Chrysallidini within the family Pyramidellidae.
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 gibbosa (Bush, 1909)
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References
- ↑ Bartsch, P. (1955). "The pyramidellid molluscs of the Pliocene deposits of North St. Petersburg, Florida". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 106 (20): 1–102, 18 plates.
- ↑ Robertson R. & Mau-Lastovicka T. (1979). "The ectoparasitism of Boonea and Fargoa (Gastropoda: Pyramidellidae)". Biological Bulletin. 157 (2): 320–333. doi:10.2307/1541058. JSTOR 1541058.
- ↑ Schander C., Van Aartsen J. J. & Corgan J. X. (1999). "Families and genera of the Pyramidelloidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Bollettino Malacologico. 34 (9–12): 145–166.
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