Shell Family of Taiwan
Vermetidae 蛇螺科contain16 species in Taiwan,show1 - 15
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Vermetidae 蛇螺科Shell permanently cemented to rocks on its apical side, and often loosely uncoiled. Operculum chitinous, but lacking in Serpulorbis.Feeding on debris by secreting mucous threads.
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 Dendropoma maximum 有蓋蛇螺  (Sowerby, 1825)  
 Dendropoma meroclista   Hadfield & Kay, 1972  
 Dendropoma planorbis   (Dunker, 1860)  
 Petalocconchus keenae   Hadfield et Kay, 1972  
 Petaloconchus renisectus 蜈蚣蛇螺  (Carpenter, 1857)  
 Serpulorbis dentiferus 雜斑蛇螺  (Sowerby, 1820)  
 Serpulorbis imbricatus 大蛇螺  (Dunker, 1860)  
 Serpulorbis nodosorugosa 紫蛇螺  (Lischke, 1873)  
 Serpulorbis trimeresurus   Shikama et Horikoshi. 1963  
 Serpulorbis variabilis   Hadfield & Kay, 1972  
 Serpulorbis xenophorus 綴殼蛇螺  Habe, 1961  
 Spiroglyphus planorbis 平輪蛇螺  (Dunker, 1860)  
 Spiroglyphus spiruliformis 蠕形蛇螺  de Serres, 1861  
 Vermetus gordialis   (Morch, 1861)  
 Vermetus tokyoensis 東京蛇螺  Pilsbry, 1895