Shell Family of Taiwan
Costellariidae 蛹筆螺科contain364 species in Taiwan,show361 - 364
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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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 Zierliana anthracina   (Reeve, 1844)  
 Zierliana oleacea   (Reeve, 1844)  
 Zierliana woldemarii   Kiener, 1838  
 Zierliana ziervogelii 鐵齒蛹筆螺  (Gmelin, 1791)