Shell Family of Taiwan
Melongenidae 香螺科contain15 species in Taiwan，show1 - 15
 
Melongenidae 香螺科：Shell medium to large in size, elongate fusiform. Shoulder usually with low nodules of spinous tubercles. Surface covered by velvety periostracum. Aperture spacious, with open anterior canal. Columellar lip lacks fold. Outer lip not thickened. Operculum oval, with terminal nucleus. Central tooth of radula with 3 cusps, lateral with 2 large cusps. Only Hemifusus occurs in Japan.
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 Hemifusus cochidium 印度洋黑香螺  (Linnaeus, 1758)  
 Hemifusus colosseus 長香螺  (Lamarck, 1816)  
 Hemifusus crassicaudus 角香螺  (Philippi, 1848)  
 Hemifusus kawamurai 河村香螺  Habe, 1965  
 Hemifusus ternatanus 赤香螺  (Gmelin, 1790)  
 Hemifusus tuba 香螺  (Gmelin, 1790)  
 Melongena galeodes   Lamarck, 1822  
 Melongena pugilina   (Born, 1778)  
 Pugilina cochlidium   Linnaeus, 1758  
 Pugilina elongata   Lamarck, 1822  
 Syrinx aruanus   Linnaeus, 1758  
 Taphon striatum   (Sowerby, 1833)  
 Volema carinifera   (Habe & Kosuge, 1965)  
 Volema myristica   Roeding, 1798  
 Volema paradisiaca nodosa   (Lamarck, 1822)