Shell Family of Taiwan
Pyramidellidae 塔螺科contain141 species in Taiwan,show91 - 105
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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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 Paramormula paucicostulata   (Tokunaga, 1906)  
 Parthenina affectuosa   (Yokoyama, 1927)  
 Parthenina quantoana   (Nomura, 1937)  
 Pselliogyra pagodula   (A. Adams, 1860)  
 Puposyrnola inturbida   (Yokoyama, 1927)  
 Pyramidella acus   Gmelin, 1791  
 Pyramidella dolabrata 彩環塔螺  (Linnaeus, 1758)  
 Pyramidella dolabrata f. terebellum 多彩環塔螺  (Moeller, 1776)  
 Pyramidella maculosa   Lamarck, 1822  
 Pyramidella sulcata 條紋塔螺  (A. Adams, 1854)  
 Pyramidella sulcata f. terebella   (A. Adams, 1854)  
 Pyrgiscilla kurodai   (Nomura, 1936)  
 Pyrgiscilla miurana   (Nomura, 1937)  
 Pyrgiscilla yoritomoi   (Nomura, 1938)  
 Pyrgulina brenda   (A. Adams, 1860)