Shell Family of Taiwan
Costellariidae 蛹筆螺科contain364 species in Taiwan,show166 - 180
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Costellariidae 蛹筆螺科Shell generally fusiform or cylindrical. Surface glossy, generally with strong axial ribs. Aperture narrow, elongated with plicae on columellar lip. Siphonal canal attenuated, relatively narrow. Operculum absent. Radula rachiglossate with unicuspid lateral teeth. Divergent in tropical to warm temperate shallow water.
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 Vexillum curviliratum 黑蛹筆螺  (Sowerby, 1874)  
 Vexillum curviliratum formaadornata   Tomlin, 1920  
 Vexillum daedalum   (Reeve, 1845)  
 Vexillum decorum   (Reeve, 1845)  
 Vexillum delicatum   (A. Adams, 1853)  
 Vexillum dennisoni   (Reeve, 1844)  
 Vexillum dermestnum   (Lamarck, 1811)  
 Vexillum deshayesi   (Reeve, 1844)  
 Vexillum dilectissimum   (Melvill & Sykes, 1899)  
 Vexillum discolorium   (Reeve, 1845)  
 Vexillum diutenerum   (Hervier, 1898)  
 Vexillum dohrni   (A. Adams, 1864)  
 Vexillum duplex   Cernohorsky, 1981  
 Vexillum ebenus   (Lamarck, 1811)  
 Vexillum echinatum   (A. Adams, 1853)