Shell Family of Taiwan
Mitridae 筆螺科contain302 species in Taiwan,show211 - 225
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Mitridae 筆螺科Shell generslly fusiform , cylindrical, or conical, surface smooth or clathrate, without strong axial or spiral sculptures. Siphonal canal short, opened. Operculum absent. Radula rachiglossate with multicuspid comb-like lateral teeth. Divergent in tropical to warm temperate shallow water. Carnivorous.
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Chinese Name
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 Phaeomitra eremitarum 縱斑筆螺  (Roeding, 1798)  
 Phaeomitra fasciolaris 白斑筆螺  (Deshayes, 1834)  
 Phaeomitra imperialis 帝王筆螺  (Roeding, 1798)  
 Phaeomitra incompta 竹筍筆螺  (Lightfoot, 1786)  
 Pleioptygma helenae   (Radwin & Bibbey, 1972)  
 Pterygia arctata   (Sowerby, 1874)  
 Pterygia conus 芋形筆螺  (Gmelin, 1791)  
 Pterygia crenulata 彈頭筆螺  (Gmelin, 1791)  
 Pterygia dactylus 拇指筆螺  (Linnaeus, 1767)  
 Pterygia fenestrata 窗格筆螺  (Lamarck, 1811)  
 Pterygia glans   Reeve, 1844  
 Pterygia japonica   Okutani & Matsukuma, 1982  
 Pterygia nucea 橄欖球筆螺  (Gmelin, 1791)  
 Pterygia potensis   (Montrouzier, 1858)  
 Pterygia purtymuni   Salisbury, 1998