Shell Family of Taiwan
Plicatulidae 貓爪蛤科contain7 species in Taiwan，show1 - 7
 
Plicatulidae 貓爪蛤科：Shell small-sized, weakly convex, irregularly oval or subtrigonal, attaching to hard objects by right valve. Surface commonly marked with radial or diversified thick ribs. A pair of crural teeth on both sides of resilifer, though somewhat similar to those of the Spondylidae, are elongated sub vertically. Monomyarian; muscle scar subcircular, strongly impressed. Filibranchiate. Eyes and tentacles not developed on mantle. Shell microstructure similar to that of the Spondylidae.
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 Plicatula australis 澳洲貓爪蛤  Lamarck, 1819  
 Plicatula horrida 擬石牡蠣  Dunker, 1882  
 Plicatula imbricata   Menke, 1843  
 Plicatula philippinarum   (Hanley, 1847)  
 Plicatula plicata 太平洋貓爪蛤  (Linnaeus, 1767)  
 Plicatula simplex   Gould, 1861  
 Spiniplicatula muricata 刺貓爪蛤  (Sowerby, 1873)