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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Family: | Pyramidellidae |
| Genus: | Fargoa Bartsch, 1955 |
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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.
Species
Species within the genus Fargoa include:
- Fargoa calesi (Bartsch, 1955) = Fargoa bushiana (Bartsch, 1909) - as Odostomia bushiana, type species
- 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)
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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