Shell Family of Taiwan
Pyramidellidae 塔螺科contain141 species in Taiwan,show76 - 90
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Pyramidellidae 塔螺科Shell slender conic to ovate, often with fold(s) on columella. Protoconch heterostrophic. Operculum horny, paucispiral. Head bears a tongue-like mentum. Secondary gill present right to dorsal ciliated strip in pallial cavity, or lacking at all. Proboscis acrembolic. No radula present. Anterior alimentary canal with a stylet and buccal pump(s) which are usually blind-sac like. Simultaneous hermaphroditic, with a common gonoduct. Ectoparasites sucking body fluids of mollusks, annelids, sipunclids, etc.
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 Odostomia tenera   A. Adams, 1860  
 Orinella dunkeri   (Dall et Bartsch, 1906)  
 Oscilla bosyuensis   (Nomura, 1937)  
 Oscilla cf. jocosa   Melvill, 1904  
 Oscilla lirata   (A. Adams, 1860)  
 Oscilla tricordata   (Nomura, 1938)  
 Oscilla voorwindei   (Laseron, 1959)  
 Otopleura auriscati 貓耳塔螺  (Holten, 1802)  
 Otopleura mitralis   (A. Adams, 1855)  
 Paracingulina inequicingulata   (Nomura, 1938)  
 Paracingulina onzikuensis   (Nomura, 1938)  
 Paracingulina terebra   (Dunker, 1860)  
 Paracingulina triarata   (Pilsbry, 1904)  
 Paramormula aspera   Kuroda et Habe  
 Paramormula aulica   (Dall et Bartsch, 1906)