Fargoa Explained

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.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Fargoa include:

• Fargoa calesi (Bartsch, 1955) = Fargoa bushiana (Bartsch, 1909) - as Odostomia bushiana, type species^[2]
• 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)

External links

• Fargoa dianthophila - Serpulid odostome
• Fargoa buijsei - Buijse’s Odostome

Notes and References

1. Robertson R. & Mau-Lastovicka T. . 1979 . The ectoparasitism of Boonea and Fargoa (Gastropoda: Pyramidellidae) . Biological Bulletin . 157 . 2 . 320–333 . 10.2307/1541058 . 1541058 .
2. Schander C., Van Aartsen J. J. & Corgan J. X.. Families and genera of the Pyramidelloidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bollettino Malacologico. 1999. 34. 9–12. 145–166.