Shell Family of Taiwan
Columbellidae 麥螺科contain81 species in Taiwan,show61 - 75
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Columbellidae 麥螺科Shell small, fusiform to ovate, glossy with some sculpture. Outer lip usually thickened with some denticles within inner wall. Siphonal canal distinct. Operculum chitinous, oblong. Radula rachiglossate with truncate central tooth lacking cusp. Many species associated with algae. Carnivorous. Tropical to boreal waters, intertidal zone to bathyal depth.
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 Pyrene punctata 紅麥螺  (Bruguiere, 1789)  
 Pyrene scripta   (Lamarck, 1822)  
 Pyrene splendidula 瑪瑙麥螺  (Sowerby, 1894)  
 Pyrene subcribraria   (Pilsbry, 1905)  
 Pyrene testudinaria subcrebraria   (Pilsbry, 1905)  
 Pyrene testudinaria testudinaria 麥螺  (Link, 1806)  
 Pyrene testudinaria tylerae   (Griffith et Pidgeon, 1834)  
 Pyreneola pleurotomoides   Iredale, 1919  
 Pyreneola semiplicata 蜉蝣松虫螺  (Sowerby III, 1894)  
 Pyrenola semipicta   (Sowerby III, 1894)  
 Sulcomitrella kanamaruana 金丸麥螺  (Kuroda, 1953)  
 Zafra albomarginata   Okamoto et Habe, 1979  
 Zafra comistea   (Melvill, 1906)  
 Zafra divaricata   (Pilsbry, 1904)  
 Zafra mitriformis 筆頭麥螺  (A. Adams, 1860)