Shell Family of Taiwan
Muricidae 骨螺科contain247 species in Taiwan,show211 - 225
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Muricidae 骨螺科Shell biconical to globose with distinct, occasionally long siphonal canal. Surface costate with imbricate to nodulate spiral ribs. Scales on ribs occasionally spinuated or lamellate, or form wings on varix. Operculum chitinous, oval. Radula rachiglossate, or absent in parasitic group. Carnivorous.
Senitfic Name
Chinese Name
omenclator
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 Rapana rapiformis 白皺岩螺  (Born, 1778)  
 Rapana venosa pechiliennsis 角皺岩螺  Grabau et King, 1928  
 Rapana venosa venosa 紅皺岩螺  (Valenciennes, 1846)  
 Scabrotrophon chunfui 春福骨螺  Houart et Lan, 2001  
 Scabrotrophon lani 藍氏骨螺  Houart et Sun, 2001  
 Siphonochelus japonicus   (A. Adams, 1863)  
 Siphonochelus nipponensis 日本管骨螺  Keen et Campbell, 1964  
 Siratus alabaster 岩石芭蕉螺  (Reeve, 1845)  
 Siratus laciniatus   Sowerby, 1841  
 Siratus pliciferoides 岩棘千手螺  (Kuroda, 1942)  
 Spinidrupa spinosa   H. et A. Adams, 1853  
 Tenguella granulata 結螺  (Duclos, 1924)  
 Thais alouina   (Roeding)  
 Thais armigera 大岩螺  (Link, 1807)  
 Thais bimaculata   (Jonas, 1845)