Shell Family of Taiwan
Glycymerididae 蚶蜊科contain25 species in Taiwan，show16 - 25
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Glycymerididae 蚶蜊科：Shell small to large, subcircular, thick, equilateral, equivalve. Gently arched hinge plate with numerous small teeth. Beak weakly, occasionally strongly, opisthogyrous. Anisomyarian; anterior adductor muscle scar larger than posterior one. Outer surface smooth or ornamented with strong radial ribs, covered by well developed hairy or filmy periostracum. Ligament duplivincular, amphidetic, occasionally nearly completely prosodetic. Inner verntral margin strongly crenulated. Blood with haemogrobin.
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 Glycymeris vestita 花蚶蜊  (Dunker, 1877)  
 Glycymeris yessoensis   (Sowerby, 1889)  
 Melaxinaea clarki 克氏墨蚶蜊  (Nicol, 1951)  
 Melaxinaea prashadi   (Nicol, 1951)  
 Tucetilla tenuicostata   (Reeve)  
 Tucetona amboinensis 安汶圓扇蚶蜊  (Gmelin, 1791)  
 Tucetona auriflua 鎏金蚶蜊  (Reeve, 1843)  
 Tucetona gealei   (Angas, 1873)  
 Tucetona nodosa 瘤圓扇蚶蜊  (Reeve, 1843)  
 Tucetonella munda   (Sowerby III, 1903)