Shell Family of Taiwan
Costellariidae 蛹筆螺科 contain364 species in Taiwan,show256 - 270
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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 moniliferum   (C.B. Adams, 1850)  
 Vexillum multicostatum   (Broderip, 1836)  
 Vexillum multitriangulum   Salisbury & Callomon, 1998  
 Vexillum mutabile   (Reeve, 1845)  
 Vexillum nakama   (Dall, 1926)  
 Vexillum nicobaricum   (Dunker, 1866)  
 Vexillum nitidissimum   (Melvill & Standen, 1895)  
 Vexillum nodai   Turner & Salisbury, 1999  
 Vexillum nodospiculum   Cernohorsky, 1970  
 Vexillum noduliferum   (A. Adams, 1853)  
 Vexillum obtusispinosum   (Sowerby, 1874)  
 Vexillum ochraceum   (Hervier, 1897)  
 Vexillum oniscinum   (Lamarck, 1811)  
 Vexillum oryzum   Kay, 1979  
 Vexillum osiridis   Issel, 1869