Shell Family of Taiwan
Pyramidellidae 塔螺科contain141 species in Taiwan,show16 - 30
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Pyramidellidae 塔螺科Shell slender conic to ovate, often with fold(s) on columella. Protoconch heterostrophic. Operculum horny, paucispiral. Head bears a tongue-like mentum. Secondary gill present right to dorsal ciliated strip in pallial cavity, or lacking at all. Proboscis acrembolic. No radula present. Anterior alimentary canal with a stylet and buccal pump(s) which are usually blind-sac like. Simultaneous hermaphroditic, with a common gonoduct. Ectoparasites sucking body fluids of mollusks, annelids, sipunclids, etc.
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 Chemnitzia crassa   (Nomura, 1936)  
 Chemnitzia kesennumana   (Nomura, 1938)  
 Chemnitzia kidoensis   (Yokoyama, 1922)  
 Chemnitzia multigyra   (Dunker, 1882)  
 Chemnitzia punctipererata   (Nomura, 1936)  
 Chrysallida cf. fischeri   (Hornung & Mermod, 1925)  
 Chrysallida metura   A. Adams, 1860  
 Chrysallida sibana   (Yokoyama, 1927)  
 Cingulina cingulata   (Dunker, 1860)  
 Cingulina laticingula   (Dall et Bartsch, 1906)  
 Colsyrnola buxeunnea   (Gould)  
 Colsyrnola ornata   (Gould)  
 Derjuginella rufofasciata 金線塔螺  (Simith, 1875)  
 Dunkeria shigeyasui   (Yokoyama, 1927)  
 Egilina kotoeae   Hori et H. Fukuda, 1999