Shell Family of Taiwan
Arcidae 魁蛤科contain120 species in Taiwan,show106 - 120
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Arcidae 魁蛤科Shell small, quadrate, thick, solid, and well-inflated. A sharp keel running from beak to postero-ventral corner. Outer surface ornamented by fine radial riblets and concentric threads presenting a cancellated appearance. Byssal gape situated a little anterior to center. Posterior area in inner surface occasionally brown. Southern Hokkaido, south-ward to tropical Indo-Pacific. Attached to rocks, in intertidal zone to 20m deep.
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Chinese Name
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 Scapharca rufescens   (Reeve, 1844)  
 Scapharca satowi nipponensis 日本大毛蚶  (Pilsbry, 1901)  
 Scapharca satowi satowi 大毛蚶  Dunker, 1882  
 Scapharca secticostata   (Reeve, 1844)  
 Scapharca subcrenata 毛蚶  (Lischke, 1869)  
 Scapharca troscheli   Dunker, 1882  
 Striarca pectunculiformis   (Dunker, 1853)  
 Striarca thielei   Schenck, 1931  
 Tegillarca granosa 血蚶  (Linnaeus, 1758)  
 Tegillarca nodifera 結毛蚶  (v. Martens, 1860)  
 Tosarca vellicata   (Reeve, 1844)  
 Trisidos kiyonoi   (Kuroda, 1929)  
 Trisidos semitorta 半扭魁蛤  (Lamarck, 1819)  
 Trisidos tortuosa 扭魁蛤  (Linnaeus, 1758)  
 Vitracar albidum   Sakurai et Habe, 1966