Shell Family of Taiwan
Costellariidae 蛹筆螺科contain364 species in Taiwan,show286 - 300
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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 pratasense 東沙春柏蛹筆螺  Lan, 2004  
 Vexillum puella   (Reeve, 1845)  
 Vexillum puerile   (Cooke, 1885)  
 Vexillum pulchellum   (Reeve, 1844)  
 Vexillum purpuratum   (Reeve, 1845)  
 Vexillum radius   (Reeve, 1845)  
 Vexillum radix 根蛹筆螺  (Sowerby, 1874)  
 Vexillum roratum   (Gould, 1850)  
 Vexillum roseum   (Broderip, 1836)  
 Vexillum rubellum   Adams & Reeve, 1850  
 Vexillum rubricatum   (Reeve, 1850)  
 Vexillum rubrocostatum   Habe & Kosuge, 1966  
 Vexillum rubrum   (Broderip, 1836)  
 Vexillum rufomaculatum   (Souverbie, 1860)  
 Vexillum rugosum 黑帶蛹筆螺  (Gmelin, 1791)